West Philly music venue World Stage — formerly known as World Cafe Live — was shut down by Pennsylvania State Police Liquor Control Enforcement officers on Saturday. Before a scheduled evening ...

The arrest of four World Stage employees and a venue-shutdown for selling liquor without a license is the latest in a string ...

Since World Cafe Live founder Hal Real stepped down as CEO in May, drama at the University City music venue has been unending. Joseph Callahan, who brought the Portal to Philadelphia in 2024, took ...

If you look at the website for World Cafe Live or you check out the music venue’s social media posts right now, it would seem that all is peachy. The most recent Facebook post from World Cafe Live ...

National Latino Heritage Month kicked off this week, so World Cafe is taking a look back through the archives to highlight some of the incredible Latinx musicians who have joined us on the show in ...

If we had to sum up World Cafe's guests in 2024 using one word, it'd be "history." So many of the artists we've spoken to this year opened up to us about their personal histories and the experiences ...

In the First Times series, the team at World Cafe is dig into the archives for some very early performances from artists destined for big, big... World Cafe 30th Anniversary: First Times World Cafe ...