A listing on badslava.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The venue's own homepage and taproom page -- both substantial and readable -- do not mention an open mic (checked Aug 13, 2026). The only source claiming one exists is an open-mic listing site dated Aug 2026 [s1]. The venue's own silence outweighs that listing, but there is no positive sign the mic has ended either.
A listing on openmikes.org lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Thursdays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
No website was found for the venue -- only a Facebook page, a Yelp page, and directory listings. The only evidence for this Thursday open mic is an open-mic listing site last updated roughly three years ago (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That is well past what a weekly event needs for confidence.
A page on walnutstreetcafe.net lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Sundays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
An open-mic listing site lists upcoming Sunday instances at 7 PM through Sep 13, 2026, last updated in April [s1]. The Venue's Website, checked Aug 13, 2026, instead describes a Wednesday poetry open mic hosted by Dave Summerset and a third-Thursday comedy night called 'the riot act' -- no Sunday variety mic at all, and no date stamp [s2]. Whether the schedule moved, or the venue runs multiple mics, is unresolved.
2nd & 4th Monday of the month · 7 PM · sign-up 6:30 PM
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The Venue's Website could not show whether this event is listed, since its calendar loads through a script that could not be read, so this is inconclusive, not a clean negative (checked Aug 13, 2026). A community events calendar, dated Mar 9, 2026, about five months before Aug 13, 2026, lists the event [s1]. The venue's own dated event page from June 2025 also lists it [s2].
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Malden community events calendar (page no longer available)· web page · maldenevents.com
Mar 9, 2026
Venue's Website (page no longer available)· urbanmediaarts.org
The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Tuesdays. Only one source reports it.
The venue's own entertainment page, checked Aug 13, 2026, currently displays a 'Tuesdays Open Mic Night' flyer naming it among regular offerings, but carries no date stamp [s1]. The only dated supporting listing is from around August 2025, about 12 months old — at or past the roughly six months usually expected to show a weekly event is still current. There is no evidence it has been cancelled.
A later check found that the venue's own homepage domain now serves unrelated hijacked content, so its earlier silence on 'open mic' cannot be used as evidence either way [s1]. The only remaining source is host Bruce Marshall's own bio page, checked Aug 13, 2026, which describes a third-Wednesday arrangement in ongoing terms but carries no date beyond a 2025 copyright footer [s2].
The first Thursday of each month, 7:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The host's own open-mic page describes this event but carries no date to confirm it is still current (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. A community-calendar mention of a 'Nov 7' date does not specify a year, so it cannot serve as a recent, dated confirmation either.
Every other Wednesday, 6:30 PM; which weeks is unclear.
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A listing on openmikes.org lists this night, but may not be current.
The Venue's Website could not be read at all (checked Aug 13, 2026). An open-mic listing site shows biweekly Wednesday dates through October 2026 [s1]. The listing text, however, says it was last updated in January 2025, and its footer separately says August 13, 2025 — so those future dates reflect an old update, not fresh confirmation. A dated event calendar entry and a vaguely dated social post are similarly weak.
A listing on openmikes.org lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Wednesdays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
An open-mic listing site's dedicated page for this venue, checked Aug 13, 2026, lists five upcoming weekly dates from Aug 19 through Sep 16, 2026, all at 7:00 PM and all confirmed to fall on Wednesday [s1].
The last Saturday of each month. Only one source reports it.
A partner school's own page describes only the inaugural Open Mic Night on July 28, with no year given and no mention of later instances [s1]. The co-hosting brewery's own homepage does not mention an open mic at all (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s2]. Its events page is silent on it too [s3]. Nothing found confirms the bimonthly series continued past its first night, but nothing shows it stopped either.
Weekly, but no source gives the night. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
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A page on comedy.openmikes.org lists this event, but may not be current.
An open-mic listing site describes a different event here: 'The Open Mic @ Mikey B's - Comedy Open Mic,' hosted by Dave Sinclair every Wednesday, sign-up 6:30pm, show 7pm, through Sep 16, 2026, though last updated about a year earlier, Aug 2025 [s1]. Nothing confirms a Tuesday music open mic here; a Sep 1, 2026 recheck of the listing and the Venue's Website again found only the Wednesday comedy event, so this stays unconfirmed.
A city tourism site's event listing, dated July 21, 2026 -- about three weeks before the check (checked Aug 13, 2026) -- describes 'Open Mic... The Vault... Tuesday 8pm. Musicians and poets welcome! Hosted on the pub side' [s1]. That matches the recorded Tuesday, music-focused schedule exactly.
A listing on openmikes.org lists this night, but may not be current.
The venue's own homepage and events page -- both substantial and readable -- do not mention an open mic (checked Aug 13, 2026). The only source claiming one exists is an open-mic listing site last updated a year earlier, on Aug 13, 2025 [s1]. That is at or past what a weekly mic would need for confidence.
An open-mic listing site shows five upcoming instances of 'Open Mic Night Tuesdays' -- Aug 18, 25, Sept 1, 8, and 15, 2026, all at 7:00 PM (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Aug 18 and Sept 1 are confirmed to fall on Tuesdays. The listing gives a 7:00 PM start versus the recorded 7:30 PM; that difference is noted but not treated as a confirmed schedule change without further confirmation.
The library's own event calendar page is confirmed live (checked Aug 13, 2026). The specific instance shown still dates to Sept 16, 2025, about 11 months earlier [s1]. Since this is a quarterly series (September, November, February, April) whose weekday varies by session, as the library's own listing documents, no single day of the week is recorded, and a fresher 2026 instance was not found.
Weekly on Tuesdays. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The venue's own events page does not mention an open mic anywhere (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Its homepage is silent on it too [s2]. This does not confirm the earlier lead, which had rested only on a review site comment, not the venue's own current site; nothing found states the event has been discontinued either.
The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.
The venue's own event page could not be reached this time -- it showed only a challenge screen instead of real content -- so this attempt neither confirms nor disproves anything (checked Aug 13, 2026). An earlier, successful read of the same page had found real content confirming a Wednesday open mic hosted by TIMKO [s1]. That finding stands, though confidence is slightly lower since it could not be reconfirmed as current.
Monthly, but no source gives the night. Something about this has changed recently — confirm before going.
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The sources disagree about whether it still runs.
The organiser's Facebook page announced Aug 10, 2026 plans to revive the open mic at Studio 9, Friday Aug 21, 5-7:30 PM [s2]. Its Instagram page said the event welcomes performers ages 11-20 [s3]. Whether it continues monthly is unconfirmed: Aug 21 was framed as a one-time restart, no later date has been found, and the organiser's website is silent on it. A college guide lists the Grooove among the coalition's current projects [s5].
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
The first Tuesday of each month, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A writers' guild's own open-mics page, checked Aug 13, 2026, still lists this event as meeting the first Tuesday of the month, 7 PM at The Basement [s1]. City licensing minutes from 2023 suggested the venue may have closed for renovation with an uncertain reopening, but the government document could not be read to confirm this. A review site still lists the business as of July 2026, though that alone doesn't confirm it's operating.
Monthly on a Wednesday, 6:30 PM; no source says which week.
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The venue's own ticketing page lists four upcoming instances of the Song & Story Open Mic -- Sept 16, Oct 28, Nov 18, and Dec 16, 2026 -- all confirmed to fall on Wednesdays (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That matches the recorded day exactly. The same page's own text elsewhere describes it as happening 'once a month on a Tuesday night,' which contradicts its own listed dates and appears to be an outdated line on the page.
A page on valleyadvocate.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The Venue's Website could not be reached in one form and showed only a tiny placeholder page in another, with no mention of an open mic (checked Aug 13, 2026). The only substantive source remains a Western Massachusetts open-mic round-up from April 19, 2024 [s1]. That is more than two years old, past what a weekly mic needs for confidence.
The venue's own coffeehouse page lists 'Open Mic' as a current feature and separately includes the forward-looking line 'See you in October 2026' (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That is a dated signal that the series continues into the near future, consistent with the recorded third-Friday monthly cadence. An open-mic listing site also names this event.
The third Tuesday of each month, 6:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The venue's own homepage does not mention an open mic (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. Its events page is silent on it too [s2]. The only earlier source was an open-mic listing site; no independent confirmation was found, and nothing points to the event having been canceled either.
Runs only part of the year — check it is in season before going.
Call to confirm current schedule
A ticket page on eventbrite.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Mondays, 7:00 PM. Runs seasonally.
The venue's own homepage and events page -- both substantial and readable -- do not mention this poetry series by name (checked Aug 13, 2026). Since this seasonal event's boundaries were never established, and today falls within its usual season, the silence could mean the series ended for the year, hasn't been posted yet, or is promoted only on Facebook, which couldn't be checked -- not treated as evidence it has ended.
The venue's own dedicated open-mic page describes current, live operating rules: 'Monday signups + in-person lottery, no need to show up early,' with a live sign-up sheet link and cancellation procedures explicitly tied to Monday (checked Aug 13, 2026) [s1]. That is clear evidence of an actively run, currently maintained program.
A news article on patch.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The Wine Cellar has no website of its own. The only citation is a news listings site's event page whose underlying information dates to June 2012, 14 years old [s1]. Loading that page directly shows only cookie-consent boilerplate, no readable event content. A Facebook post about 'Open Mic Comedy in the Cellar every Wednesday' may describe a different, differently named venue, so it wasn't counted as confirmation (checked Aug 13, 2026).
Runs only part of the year — check it is in season before going.
Runs Monday nights from November to mid-May — it is an off-season series, not a summer one.
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Mondays, 7:00 PM. Runs seasonally.
This is a seasonal event. A regional magazine article, dated Nov 6, 2025, quotes the organizer establishing the season as 'Monday nights, November through mid-May' [s1]. That is the opposite of the Cape's tourist season. As of Aug 13, 2026, this falls within the confirmed off-season, so the absence of current summer activity is expected, not a sign the event has ended.