A news read on 2026-09-25 disagrees with the Thursday night here: iowastatedaily.com (2022-02-13) says weekly open mic on Tuesdays; this record lists Thursday. Which is current is unresolved — check before travelling. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
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The sources disagree on the night.
No readable source could confirm or refute this Thursday, monthly open mic (checked Aug 14, 2026). An unverified claim describing a different weekly Tuesday schedule plus a monthly poetry slam could not be traced to any readable page, so it was not adopted; the originally recorded Thursday, monthly detail stands.
Weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A city tourism calendar names this as a current weekly Thursday comedy open mic at 125 Main St (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. A downtown business district directory, maintained, names the same [s2].
A page on bettevents.org suggests it may have ended.
A civic events site's own organizer page for this venue, checked Aug 14, 2026, makes no mention of an open mic [s1]. No other source could be found either confirming or denying it — a real information gap, not proof either way.
Weekly, but no source gives the night. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
One of several nights or series at this venue
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The sources disagree about whether it still runs.
A civic visitors-bureau blog post, checked Sep 6, 2026, reports the venue once known as Maloney's Live has been renamed The B-Side Bar [s2]. Another bureau page says it now hosts live performances and open jam sessions at the same address, though whether the recorded open mic continues under the new name is unestablished. An older page under the former name still calls it 'Temporarily Closed,' a stale listing [s1].
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 current calendar page, checked Aug 14, 2026, makes no mention of an open mic [s1]. Ticketing sites describe this large casino venue's programming as booked bands, tribute shows, and ticketed comedy, with no mention of a community open mic anywhere — a real mismatch, though nothing states one specifically ended here.
A news article on qctimes.com suggests it may have ended.
Weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website has gone offline since we found this.
A news article, checked Aug 14, 2026, confirms the venue relocated to 226 W 3rd St, Davenport, after historic flooding damaged its prior location [s1]. That article doesn't mention an open mic at all, so whether the Thursday open mic — last confirmed in a 2022 article, already stale — continued or resumed at the new address remains unconfirmed.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The venue's own official site, checked Aug 14, 2026, shows no mention of an open mic anywhere on its current homepage [s1]. That silence alone doesn't establish closure — the page may simply not list every recurring night — and no dated closure statement exists.
Wednesdays, 7:00 PM. How often is unclear. Only one source reports it.
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River Music Experience has been renamed Common Chord, per an encyclopedia entry, still operating from the same building at 129 Main St [s1]. The same entry says its community stage hosts over 150 shows a year 'ranging from a weekly open mic night to the top local bands,' though undated [s1]. A local TV article from May 28, 2025 confirms the org's 2025 concert season but does not mention an open mic [s2].
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Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The Venue's Website, checked Aug 14, 2026, made no mention of an open mic and markets the room as 'the premier listening room in the Quad Cities' for booked touring artists [s1]. That is a mismatch with a typical open-sign-up night. The page is too sparse to reliably support that negative, so whether the event still runs remains unresolved.
A dated Nov 21, 2025 listing confirms one instance [s1]. A culture column dated Mar 17, 2026 quotes 'Open Mic Poetry Night hosted by Kelsey Bigelow. Fri Mar 20, 7-9 PM', about four months later [s2]. Two instances four months apart fit a quarterly cadence. The freshest is about five months old (checked Aug 14, 2026), and no June 2026 instance was found.
A city tourism site's own listing, checked Aug 14, 2026, carries structured event data recurring weekly on Tuesday, naming the host as Underground Comedy Des Moines [s1]. That promoter is a long-running local comedy institution per other unverified mentions, though only this one source was directly confirmed.
Weekly on Tuesdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website has gone offline since we found this.
A music genre society's own calendar, checked Aug 14, 2026, still lists 'Carl's Place @ 7PM' under a Tuesday heading [s1]. A newspaper article dated Nov 7, 2025, describes 'a small stage that hosts live music and open mic nights' at Carl's Place, 1620 Woodland Ave [s2].
Weekly on Wednesdays, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The venue's own official site, checked Aug 14, 2026, shows no mention of an open mic anywhere on its homepage [s1]. That alone doesn't establish closure, since the homepage may simply not list every recurring feature, and no corroborating source was found.
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 current calendar, checked Aug 14, 2026, shows no mention of an open mic anywhere [s1]. A press mention from October 2025 described the mic as something that 'will become' a weekly staple, future tense at the time, not a present-tense confirmation; the venue's address is also contested between two possible street numbers, left unresolved.
Sundays. How often is unclear. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
One of several nights or series at this venue
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The venue's events page suggests it may have ended.
This rests on a press mention from October 2025 describing 'Sunday night sees the stage open for musicians to jam.' The venue's own current calendar, checked Aug 14, 2026, does not mention an open mic at all [s1]. There is no current confirmation of this Sunday night.
Sources mention Wednesdays but are not confirmed; actual night is unclear. Only one source reports it.
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The sources disagree on the night.
A city tourism board's own venue listing (checked Aug 14, 2026) confirms recurring comedy programming at this address but names a Monday 7 PM show, not the Wednesday 8 PM asserted here [s1]. This may be a second, distinct Wednesday comedy night at the same room, or the day may simply be wrong; the contradiction is left unresolved.
A page on traveldubuque.com suggests it may have ended.
A civic tourism directory's own listing for this venue makes no mention of an open mic (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. This is a real but lower-weight negative, since it comes from a general directory rather than the Venue's Website. The Venue's Website could not be reached at all, and no positive confirmation was found either.
The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.
The Venue's Website could not be read, on either its events page or the specific event's page (checked Aug 14, 2026). An unverified claim describes an ongoing poetry night on the second Friday of every month, which would suggest this has continued or evolved from the one-off 2022 Earth Day reading listed here — but it could not be confirmed.
Night and frequency are unclear — no source gives either. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
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The venue's events page suggests it may have ended.
The venue's own current calendar page, checked Aug 14, 2026, contains no mention of 'mic' anywhere [s1]. Its homepage still lists open mic among general activities from an earlier check; this mismatch between a generic homepage claim and an empty current calendar is common for small venues and doesn't by itself confirm the mic is active or ended.
Night and frequency are unclear — no source gives either.
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A page on thesandb.com lists this event, but may not be current.
As of the Aug 14, 2026 check, a college events site previously showed no listing for this open mic, and that finding was not re-verified since. The college's fall semester typically begins in late August, so the check falling within summer break may plausibly explain the absence, though that is inference rather than a confirmed reason.
The venue's own current homepage, checked Aug 14, 2026, names an Open Mic on Sunday alongside its Thursday counterpart [s1]. No start time, sign-up time, or genre could be confirmed from the page.
Weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
The venue's own current homepage, checked Aug 14, 2026, states: 'AlleyCat is Iowa City's premier venue for live and local entertainment. With Open Mic every Sunday AND Thursday...' [s1]. The page also reveals a second, previously unrecorded Sunday open mic at the same venue, but doesn't specify a genre for either night, so the type remains unconfirmed.
Monthly on a Thursday, 9:00 PM; no source says which week. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
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The Venue's Website suggests it may have ended.
The venue's own current homepage, checked Aug 14, 2026, mentions live music, pool, and special events but no open mic anywhere [s1]. An unverified claim describing a third-Thursday-monthly mic with 7:30 pm sign-up and an 8 pm start could not be traced to any readable source, so it was not adopted.
This listing says Thursday; the source behind it describe a Friday instead.
Free to play · $10 cover
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The promoter's own site, checked Aug 14, 2026, describes a free comedy open mic with sign-up at 8 pm and a start at 8:30 pm, but its one specific upcoming instance is listed for Friday, Aug 21, 2026, at 8:30 pm with a $10 cover [s1]. That day-of-week and cost contradiction with the recorded Thursday, free format is left unresolved.
Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A music genre society's own calendar, checked Aug 14, 2026, lists 'Kenny's Garage @ 7PM' under a Thursday heading [s1]. Unconfirmed reports describe a Thursday 7-11 pm open blues jam consistent with this, though they could not be confirmed.