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The venue's own ticketing data (checked Sept 1, 2026) lists four upcoming Wednesday instances -- Sept 2, 9, 16, and 23, 2026 -- of 'Open Mic hosted by Marcus Mangham' in the Callback Bar, running every Wednesday 6:30-8 PM, with all four dates confirmed to be genuine Wednesdays [s1]. The venue's Callback Bar page confirms the same [s2].
A Sacramento music-open-mic directory lists it with a 2-songs-per-performer format and hip-hop backing tracks welcomed, clearly a music open mic, though from a single source.
A page on queenshebarestaurant.com suggests it may have ended.
As of Sep 1, 2026, Queen Sheba's own website confirms the restaurant is open, with menu and hours listed, but contains no mention of live music or an open mic anywhere, and a dedicated events page could not be reached [s1]. This weighs against the claim, but the mic may simply not be advertised there; no other source corroborates it.
The venue's own dedicated Open Mic page, checked Sept 1, 2026, states in present tense 'TUESDAY NIGHTS' with in-person sign-ups at 7:30 PM and a show from 8-10 PM [s1]. No specific upcoming instance appears on the page, and an attempt to date the page through an archive service failed to connect.
A Sacramento music-listing site says the open mic covers music, poetry, comedy and activism; the venue's own page mentions live music and open mics without naming kinds.
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, this business's own identity is uncertain — the original listing appears to duplicate the same address, day, and time under two different name spellings. A recheck of one possible domain for the business failed to resolve, and no other source was found.
The venue's own Open Mics page, checked Sept 1, 2026, states in present tense '(Thursday) Every Thursday at 8PM - Sign Ups at 7:30,' with specific rules like five-minute sets and a one-minute light cue [s1]. No upcoming instance was found on the page, and an attempt to date it through an archive service failed to connect.
The Venue's Website, checked Sept 1, 2026, states 'Tuesday: Open Mic Comedy 9pm' [s1]. This was checked against the venue's separately listed karaoke night to confirm the two are distinct events on different days, not a mislabeling of one as the other.
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the Venue's Website failed to connect due to a security-certificate problem on two separate checks. This is treated as the site being genuinely unreachable, not as evidence either way. No other source beyond the original listing was found.
The venue's events page suggests it may have ended.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, Harlow's own website -- its homepage and its events page, both fully checked -- never mentions an open mic, 'The Stage' (the smaller room this listing refers to), or a recurring Wednesday event [s1]. The address has been confirmed as Harlow's real address, so this silence on the Venue's Website weighs against the claim.
Event listings title the Friday event 'Open Mic Comedy,' but the restaurant's own weekly line-up page doesn't mention it and lists Friday only for food specials.
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Fridays, 9:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, no working website could be found for Vince's Ristorante, with the same failure as the prior check. No other source was found; the day, time, type, and address are carried unchanged from the original listing and remain unconfirmed.
Saturdays, 7:00 PM. How often is unclear. Only one source reports it.
Call to confirm the night
The sources disagree about whether it still runs.
A ticketing site's listing for this event (re-checked Sep 1, 2026) is structurally live, showing a genuine near-term date of Sep 5, 2026 within an active recurring series running through June 2027 [s1]. The event's organizer is not confirmed to be affiliated with the venue. The barbershop's own social media profile, fully checked, doesn't mention 'open mic' [s2].
Night and frequency are unclear — no source gives either. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
Call to confirm the night
The sources disagree about whether it still runs.
As of Aug 31, 2026, the Venue's Website, fully read, does not mention an open mic [s2]. The only source for this event is a regional comedy open-mic listing, which still lists it as of today's recheck [s1]. The promoter's own sign-up link could not be reached. No evidence of closure exists either, so the status is unconfirmed.
The Venue's Website, checked Aug 31, 2026, confirms a current open-mic program [s2]. A regional open-mic calendar site lists a dated Tuesday, Sept 1, 2026 instance called 'Open Mic "Raffle"' at this address, with sign-up from 7:30-7:50 PM and an 8 PM start [s1].
Every other Sunday, 3:00 PM; which weeks is unclear. Only one source reports it.
Call to confirm the night
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
As of Aug 31, 2026, the venue's own current website does not mention 'open mic' on either its La Jolla location page or its homepage. One possible source suggests a dedicated events page describing an open-mic series may exist, but it could not be located.
4th Thursday of the month · 7 PM · sign-up 6:30 PM
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The fourth Thursday of each month, 7:00 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
La Bodega Art Gallery closed at the end of 2019 after a rent dispute; its last show was Dec 14, 2019 [s5]. Its website is now a parked domain [s6]. Palabra poetry open mic is still active at Bread & Salt, listed there Feb 26, 2026 (Thursday, 7 PM) [s3]. Bread & Salt is about a mile from the old gallery. It was listed there again March 26, 2026 [s4]. Both dates suggest a monthly fourth-Thursday schedule, not twice-monthly.
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Fridays, 4:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
As of Aug 31, 2026, neither the venue's homepage nor its dedicated events page, both checked directly, clearly mentions an open mic. A secondhand claim of a Friday open mic with live music could not be corroborated against any dated, readable page.
Weekly on Fridays, 6:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A civic business-improvement district's own article, published July 23, 2026 -- about five weeks before Aug 31, 2026 -- describes a currently-running weekly Friday open mic here with named hosts, in the present tense [s1].
The sources give the same night and time, but none confirms recent activity.
As of Aug 31, 2026, the venue's own events calendar carries a upcoming Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026 instance of 'Open Mic Night on the Patio Stage,' with a separate, earlier entry confirming a Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025 instance — a genuine, ongoing weekly series on the venue's own page [s1]. An open-mic listing site lists the same event [s2].
The host organization's own live-events page, checked Aug 31, 2026, gives its main, current schedule statement as this event running the third Wednesday of every month at 7 PM at Book Catapult [s1]. This is a standing description of the recurring schedule rather than a single dated instance.
The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.
The second Friday of each month, 7:30 PM. Only one source reports it.
As of Aug 31, 2026, the only dated instance cited — a 'next event' pointer reading 'Friday, February 14th' — actually falls in February 2025 given the day of the week, about 18 months stale [s1]. The page's own comment thread shows the organizers acknowledging their listings aren't reliably updated. A general monthly pattern (2nd Friday) may still hold, but no fresh confirmation was found.
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 9:30 PM. Only one source reports it.
As of Aug 31, 2026, the venue's real website was located, and both its homepage and calendar page, checked directly, are readable but neither mentions an open mic. A secondhand lead describes a possibly different Wednesday comedy showcase, not confirmed elsewhere.
The venue's own dedicated page, checked Aug 31, 2026, currently states Monday is its open mic night [s1]. A structured third-party listing confirms the same day and gives 5:30 PM sign-up and 6:00 PM start times, open to all formats, music, comedy, and poetry [s2].
A regional open-mic calendar site, checked Aug 31, 2026, lists several dated instances of this venue's open mic in early September -- Wed Sept 2, Thu Sept 3, and a Sat/Sun pair Sept 5-6 -- each describing the same Instagram-based sign-up process [s1]. This confirms the program runs on a genuinely variable set of nights rather than one fixed weekday. An earlier listing agreed the event exists [s2].
The venue's own official website, checked Aug 31, 2026, carries a real, dated recurring calendar with instances on Sept 5, 12, 19, and 26, 2026, all confirmed to be genuine Saturdays [s1].
A ticket page on meetup.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A dated ticketing-site listing confirms the venue and the Thursday comedy open-mic format are real, though the listing is from Jan 30, 2025 [s1]. That is about a year and a half old, so it does not by itself show the event is still running. The hosting group's current events page shows no upcoming instance.
The event organizer's own ticketing page, checked Aug 31, 2026, lists a upcoming instance for Monday, Sept 14, 2026 -- the second Monday of the month, two weeks ahead [s1]. This is consistent with an earlier confirmed instance on June 8, 2026, also a second Monday, three months apart but following the same monthly pattern.