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The community's own platform page, checked Sept 1, 2026, describes in present tense: 'Tuesday Nights are for the community: Open Mic and Creative Lounge,' specifying the open mic runs the first and third Tuesday, 6-11 PM, ending in a jam session [s1]. No specific upcoming instance with a calendar date could be extracted, so confidence is medium.
The venue's own current site, checked Sept 1, 2026, lists four upcoming Monday instances -- Sept 7, 14, 21, and 28, 2026 -- of 'Open Mic Night' [s1]. An open-mic listing site corroborates Monday as the day [s2]. A news feature describes the same long-running format, with names drawn from a pitcher at 7:50 PM and the show starting at 7 PM, though it carries no date and isn't used as a source.
The venue's own current website, checked Sept 1, 2026, includes a gallery item titled 'Bluegrass Every Sunday!,' matching Sunday exactly [s1]. An open-mic listing site corroborates Sunday [s2]. A separate description calls it San Francisco's only weekly bluegrass jam on Sundays.
The Venue's Website, checked Sept 1, 2026, confirms hours consistent with a Wednesday night event but didn't itself surface the word 'jazz' [s2]. An open-mic listing site lists the next event as Aug 30, 2026 [s1]. Another listing names a specific host, Kyle Finley & The Dirty Works Jazz Band, 8-11 PM except the first week of the month, supporting genuine ongoing operation over a generic template.
The venue's own current event page (checked Sept 1, 2026) shows a live September 2026 theme, 'PANTS ON FIRE!,' confirming the page is current rather than an old archive [s1]. An open-mic listing site's own listing gives occurrence dates of Sept 8, Oct 13, and Nov 10, 2026, all confirmed second Tuesdays [s2]. The exact sign-up mechanism could not be confirmed, so confidence is medium.
Night and frequency are unclear — no source gives either.
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A page on themoth.org suggests it may have ended.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the storytelling series' own national events page confirms San Francisco as a currently listed active city, but this specific venue is absent from the current schedule, so it isn't confirmed as the pairing for the next announced show [s1]. These shows are announced one at a time rather than on a fixed schedule, so the day and frequency remain undetermined rather than unresearched.
Mondays. How often is unclear. Only one source reports it.
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A listing on bayareaopenmics.com lists this night, but may not be current.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the Venue's Website returns identical content no matter what page is requested, so its silence can't be trusted. A local news feature describes the Monday open mic [s1]. That feature is about 21 months old, well beyond the roughly six months that would show a weekly event is still running. A listing site shows a next date of Aug 31, 2026 [s2]. That alone isn't enough to confirm it.
A comedy-open-mic listing names it 'Open Mic Comedy' every Monday at the recorded time; the Venue's Website does not confirm it and a music profile files it as rock/metal/punk.
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The Venue's Website could not be reached, with a security-certificate error on both the homepage and its calendar page, the same failure as before (checked Aug 31, 2026). A listing site is the source for this Monday open mic [s1].
The host's own website, checked Sept 1, 2026, states in present tense: 'THE SCOTT STREET LABYRINTH on ANY FRIDAY EVENING beginning at 7:00PM,' matching the recorded venue and day exactly [s1]. A long-running local events publication's own recurring listing, titled '(Every Friday),' corroborates this.
A ticketing page's deeper series data, checked Aug 31, 2026, confirms the organizer, 'THE COMEDY LANE presents,' has hosted 342 events over three years, a real, active promoter across multiple venues, and shows this comedy mic with a genuinely upcoming session [s2]. An earlier-cited instance on that same page has since completed. The venue's own thin website doesn't corroborate this.
This listing says Friday; the sources behind it describe Wednesday instead. Only one source reports it.
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The sources disagree on the night.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the organization's own program page still shows the same Nov/Dec 2025 pair as its freshest dated instances, despite a more recent page update [s1]. Its general events listing shows the title with no date attached [s2]. No fall-2026 announcement has appeared yet, but it's early in the program's season, so that isn't conclusive. This event has no fixed venue, so a venue-page check doesn't apply.
Weekly on Fridays, 6:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the Venue's Website, fully checked, makes no mention of 'open mic' [s1]. This weighs against the listing sites that name this event. One open-mic listing site's page for the venue lists the same host, time, and rules [s2]. Other listing sites agree so closely that they read as one original claim republished rather than independent corroboration.
The venue's own ticketing page, checked Sept 1, 2026, is confirmed actively maintained — it specifically notes no event in May or September 2026, a forward-looking, currently relevant notice [s2]. The Venue's Website corroborates the same program [s1]. A Sept 5 contact check found the stored email missing the word 'art' — a typo that would have bounced or reached a stranger.
OpenMicX labels the Friday open mic 'Comedy Open Mic,' but the venue is otherwise known for live jazz and vinyl nights, so the open mic's actual kind is unclear.
Both sources give the same night and time, but neither confirms recent activity.
As of Sep 1, 2026, an open-mic listing site names a Friday 6 PM open mic here [s1]. A jazz-focused music directory agrees [s2]. Neither is from the venue itself, and no venue-owned website or social account could be found to check directly.
The second Saturday of each month, 7:00 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
The Venue's Website, checked Sept 1, 2026, confirms this event was rebranded from 'Modular Synthesizer Open Mic' to 'South Bay Sonic Circuits Open Mic,' running the second Saturday, 7-9 PM [s1]. The rebranded event's own new site confirms it enters its third season with a resume date of Sept 12, 2026, confirmed a second Saturday [s2]. This resolves an earlier weekly-Saturday-8pm claim as simply imprecise.
A page on hiestelle.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Mondays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the event's format is now well corroborated as a bilingual English/Spanish comedy open mic by an event-discovery site [s1]. A ticketing site agrees [s2]. No venue-owned website or social account could be found to check directly, so confirmation rests only on listing-tier sources.
Weekly on Thursdays, 9:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the Venue's Website, freshly re-checked, still makes no mention of 'open mic' [s1]. The page shows too little readable text, though, to fully support that silence as meaningful. A listing site could not be reached [s2]. The only corroboration for a Thursday 9 PM open mic or comedy night remains unreachable social-media posts from 2024-2025. The event is neither confirmed nor ruled out.
Weekly on Wednesdays. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the Venue's Website, fully read, makes no mention of a Wednesday comedy night [s1]. The only supporting source remains a single news article from Jan 5, 2022 [s2]. The venue's own posted hours (closing at 7 PM Monday-Thursday versus 9 PM on Friday) are circumstantially at odds with an evening event on Wednesday, but no dated source states the event was cancelled, so the status stays unknown.
Weekly on Thursdays. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the Venue's Website, fully read, never mentions a Thursday poetry night [s1]. The only supporting source remains a single news article from Jan 5, 2022 [s2]. Absence alone doesn't confirm the event has ended, so the status stays unknown.
Weekly on Fridays, 6:00 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
The venue's own homepage, checked Sept 1, 2026, confirms in present tense a weekly Friday, 6-9 PM open mic called 'Nirvana Soul After Dark' [s1]. This resolves an earlier 6pm/7pm start-time discrepancy in favor of 6 PM, the value the venue itself states. A 2024 student newspaper feature had also covered the same event [s2].
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
The Venue's Website says it hosts an open mic every Friday night from 6 to 9 PM, with sign-up at the door (checked Sep 7, 2026) [s1]. That page is evergreen and is not tied to a dated 2026 instance. The only dated article about the mic dates to 2024, so whether it is still active is uncertain.
Weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
A listing site describes Old Almaden as a new bar taking over the location of Mike's Place [s1]. A review site carries a closed tag for Mike's Place (checked Aug 15, 2026) [s2]. A map service shows Old Almaden open daily 11 AM-12 AM with the same phone number, (408) 723-9981 (checked Sep 6, 2026) [s3]. The Thursday open mic is unverified there; its advertised programming is live music Friday and Saturday plus karaoke.
Saturdays, 6:00 PM. How often is unclear. Runs seasonally.
Runs only part of the year — check it is in season before going.
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A page on metrosiliconvalley.com lists this night, but may not be current.
As of Sep 1, 2026, the only source describing this event remains a 2017 news article [s1]. The city parks department's page could not be reached. The hosting organization's own website, fully checked, doesn't mention this program despite covering its other 2025-2026 events. September falls after this program's claimed summer season, so the venue's current schedule couldn't settle the question either way.
The Venue's Website (checked Sept 1, 2026) agrees this Monday comedy open mic is currently running, 8-10 PM, hosted by Jacob Contreras [s1]. An independent recurring-event listing agrees [s2].
2nd Wednesday of the month · 8 PM · sign-up 7:15 PM
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The second Wednesday of each month, 8:00 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
The venue's own ticketing platform, checked Sept 1, 2026, shows this open mic runs the second Wednesday monthly, 8:00-9:30 PM, with seven upcoming instances through March 2027, each confirmed a second Wednesday [s2]. This listing previously showed it running weekly instead. The venue's own FAQ page, not checked earlier, mentions an open mic (checked Sep 5, 2026) [s1]. This listing previously stated the Venue's Website never mentioned one.
A page on makemusicday.org lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
The only confirmed 'open mic' tied to this venue is a one-day annual music festival slot, 11am-1pm [s1]. That is not the claimed weekly Wednesday 8pm event, which no other source supports. The Venue's Website, fully read via its events and calendar pages (checked Sep 1, 2026), never mentions an evening open mic [s2]. This looks like a claim invented by conflating the festival slot into a fabricated weekly series.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 10:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A 2022 magazine article says the mic 'held right up to the shutdown,' language that is ambiguous and now over four years old [s1]. A meetup group's page lists four dated shows here between September 2025 and January 2026 [s2]. That group is a roving promoter that books multiple venues, so those dates are possible corroboration rather than confirmation of a standing show here. The Venue's Website doesn't resolve.
Weekly on Tuesdays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The Venue's Website, checked twice as of Sep 1, 2026, did not show enough text to confirm or rule out an open mic [s1]. Its public event calendar on a major ticketing site shows a fully booked touring-act nightclub, including a specific booked show on the exact Tuesday night claimed for an open mic [s2]. No source beyond the original open-mic listing site has ever described an open mic here.