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Sources mention Thursdays but are not confirmed; actual night is unclear. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
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The sources disagree on the night.
The venue's own homepage (checked Aug 31, 2026) was fully read and does not mention an open mic in any form [s1]. Its dedicated events calendar says the same [s2]. This is a national touring comedy club, a venue type where booked showcases rather than open-signup mics are typical. No evidence of a closure exists either, so whether this open mic ever ran here is unconfirmed.
Quarterly, but no source gives the night. Runs seasonally.
Runs only part of the year — check it is in season before going.
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The Venue's Website lists this event, but may not be current.
The venue's own institutional page, checked Sept 1, 2026, states 'The MCC hosts a quarterly open mic' and its event archive shows season tabs through Spring 2026, indicating the page is actively maintained [s1]. No specific date for a Fall 2026 session was found, so confidence is medium; a gap in September is expected given the university's academic calendar, not a sign the program has stopped.
The venue's own homepage names a specific upcoming date, 'Wed Sept 9 | 6:30-8PM | Open Mic,' eight days ahead of the Sep 1, 2026 check [s1]. This confirms one specific instance rather than an established recurring schedule, and the venue's separate event-calendar page doesn't corroborate it.
The group's own Meetup page, checked Aug 31, 2026, lists five separately dated instances of this third-Saturday-of-the-month series extending three months into the future, each with a different RSVP count, confirming they are real individual events [s1].
This listing says Thursday; the sources behind it describe Wednesday instead. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
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The sources disagree on the night.
Sammy's Original closed permanently -- it held a 'Say Goodbye to Sammy's' event on Nov 1, 2025 [s5]. By July 2026 the building was described as the former Sammy's space, converting into a medical office [s4]. The same hosts now run the program as 'Sessions @ VOCO' every Thursday, 6:30 PM, in Laguna Hills, with dated listings through mid-October 2026 [s3]. A listing site still generates stale Wednesday dates for the old address [s7].
An open-mic listing site states 'Open Mic Every Monday at 6:30 PM' for this venue, matching the day and time this listing already carries (checked Aug 31, 2026) [s1].
A news article on thebloom.news suggests it may have ended.
The only sources found are a review site, which could not be reached, and a feature article. That article does not mention an open mic at this lounge (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. No source corroborating this event's current existence, day, or format could be found.
A San Diego open-mic calendar site (re-checked Aug 31, 2026) does not mention 'La Mesa' or 'Public Square' anywhere on its current listing [s1]. This calendar is also known not to cover La Mesa generally. A previously cited detail page for this event could not be reproduced. The only remaining basis is an open-mic listing site's claim of a weekly Wednesday 7:00 PM event with no listed type.
The venue's events page suggests it may have ended.
Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The venue's own entertainment page (checked Aug 31, 2026) advertises curated live music every Wednesday through Saturday -- jazz, modern, and country acts -- and never uses the words 'open mic' or 'comedy' anywhere [s1]. Thursday programming reads as booked entertainment rather than an open-signup mic.
Weekly on Fridays, 5:00 PM. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
The venue's own events page, checked Aug 31, 2026, lists several dated 'Open Mic Music' Fridays in 2026 (Apr 3, 10, 17, and May 1), all confirmed to be real Fridays [s1]. This directly contradicts what was listed before: a Monday 6:30 PM mic that had rested only on an open-mic listing site. The day and time are now Friday, 5:00 PM, per the venue's own calendar.
The venue's events page suggests it may have ended.
Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The venue's dedicated events page (checked Aug 31, 2026) never uses the word 'mic' anywhere on the page [s1]. This page is more complete than the homepage, which only showed an ambiguous, undated Thursday slot. Combined with the venue's karaoke and sports-bar branding, no evidence supports an open-mic format here.
The museum's own sign-up page, checked Sep 1, 2026, reads as a current, ongoing invitation to sign up — direct evidence the mic is running [s1]. This wording is unchanged across earlier checks. The Thursday 7 PM-to-midnight schedule rests only on a listing site that has stayed unreachable and was never directly confirmed, so that detail is medium confidence though the event's existence is well supported.
The venue's own events page, checked Sept 1, 2026, shows a fourth-Friday open-mic entry in the present tense [s1]. This is the same entry found in an earlier check. The file was last edited in July 2025 -- dating the file, not the event -- so this supports active status at medium confidence. The mic's format could not be confirmed, since the site that described it has been unreachable three times.
Every other Tuesday, 6:00 PM; which weeks is unclear.
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Both sources give the same night and time, but neither confirms recent activity.
An open-mic listing site's live schedule, checked Sep 1, 2026, shows a next date of Sep 1, 2026 [s1]. The venue's own events page, fully read under its rebranded name, doesn't mention an open mic or the MC's name, but the page's content is driven by a booking widget, so this reading is inconclusive rather than a firm negative [s2].
Both sources list this event, but neither confirms recent activity.
An open-mic listing site's live schedule, checked again, shows this event with a genuinely upcoming date [s1]. Its dedicated page for this venue confirms a 'Backstage Jam and Open Mic' running every Thursday and Sunday, 9 PM to 1 AM, with a named host [s2]. No outside Venue's Website is linked from that page to cross-check.
Both sources give the same night and time, but neither confirms recent activity.
An open-mic listing site's live schedule (checked Sep 1, 2026) shows this event with a genuinely upcoming date, not a stale one [s1]. The Venue's Website opened, but as a booking-calendar shell with no readable event listings, so this is inconclusive rather than negative evidence [s2].
An open-mic listing site, checked Sept 1, 2026, shows this Sunday event with a genuinely upcoming date [s1]. The Venue's Website lists specific August 2026 Sunday dates by name, including Aug 2 and Aug 16, naming the event 'Open Mic' directly [s2].
Both sources give the same night and time, but neither confirms recent activity.
An open-mic listing site's live schedule (checked Sep 1, 2026) shows this event with a genuinely upcoming date, not a stale one [s1]. Its dedicated page for this bar shows the same [s2]. No outside Venue's Website is linked from that page to confirm.
An open-mic listing site's shared page for this venue, checked again, confirms a poetry/spoken-word open mic on the third Thursday of the month with named hosts (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. The Venue's Website doesn't mention 'poetry' or this event's name at all, only a separate Sunday music night, a mild negative expected for a venue running two co-hosted series on one shared listing [s2].
The Venue's Website lists this event, but may not be current.
The venue's own open-mic page, checked Sept 1, 2026, currently states the event runs 7-9 PM with sign-ups at 6:45, and describes monthly open mic nights [s1]. This wording matched an earlier, separate check of the same page. No specific day of the week or exact upcoming date is given, so confidence is medium.
A Santa Maria Sun nightlife roundup from Jun 27, 2008 lists a Friday 7-10 PM open mic here [s1]. No later mention of it has been found. A Lompoc Record article from 2003 describes the owner looking for a buyer [s2]. A review site shows a closed banner, but it carries no closure date (checked Aug 1, 2026) [s3]. Neither an active status nor a closure can be confirmed.
Weekly on Mondays, 9:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The Venue's Website was checked directly a second time and shows no mention of 'open mic' or 'Monday' anywhere in a full read of the page (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. This is the strongest tier of negative evidence for currency, but the original claim was never corroborated by any other source, so it may be a listing-site error rather than a real event that stopped.
Every other Wednesday, 5:30 PM; which weeks is unclear. Only one source reports it.
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A ticket page on eventbrite.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The host's own ticketing page lists this open mic on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday (checked Sep 2026) [s1]. That supersedes older Friday claims from an open-mic listing site and a 2024 poetry directory. The series is marked 'completed' after its last date, Dec 10, 2025, with no later date found, so it may have moved off ticketing or may have stopped.
The venue's own current shows page, checked Sept 1, 2026, lists 'Tuesday 9pm: Open Mic - Music & Comedy' [s1]. A ticketing site's listing gives a slightly earlier start time of 8:30 PM, but the venue's own page is treated as the stronger source.
The second Wednesday of each month, 6:30 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The only source naming this poetry series is a curated local directory last confirmed updated in April 2024 [s1]. The venue's own current shows page, fully read, lists a Tuesday music/comedy mic, Tuesday trivia, and Wednesday karaoke, but never this poetry series, though that alone doesn't prove the series ended [s2].
A 2020 event listing for a one-off 'Gay Open Mic Night' here welcomed musicians, comedians, magicians and poets; unclear if that's the same recurring Wednesday mic.
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 7:30 PM. Only one source reports it.
The venue's own domain (re-checked Sep 1, 2026) is confirmed to be an unlaunched website-builder placeholder page, so no evidence can be obtained from the Venue's Website this way [s1]. Descriptions of the venue's actual weekly programming -- karaoke and drag shows -- do not include an open mic, and no source of any kind confirms this event exists.
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Tuesdays, 6:30 PM. Only one source reports it.
The club's own Long Beach page, fully read, confirms an 'Open Mic' program is offered at this location, but states no day, time, or upcoming instance (checked Sep 2026) [s1]. The event's existence here is now confirmed on the venue's own page; its current schedule is not.
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
The venue's own ticket page for this Comedy Mic is still online, though no specific date could be found on it (checked Sep 1, 2026) [s1]. A separate check of the Venue's Website found no usable text at all, so it cannot confirm or rule out the event (checked Sep 7, 2026) [s2]. Whether the Thursday 7 PM show is still running is unknown.
A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Tuesdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
The Venue's Website failed to connect on separate attempts (checked through Sep 2026), a persistent problem rather than a one-time block, but an unreadable site provides no evidence either way. No source corroborates a Tuesday open mic, and unverified results describe the venue as closed on Tuesdays, offering live music only on Fridays and Saturdays instead.