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A page on welcometonorthside.com lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Tuesdays, 7:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A review site's reviews run through June 2026 and the bar is open as of Aug 2026. A neighborhood listing gives its hours as Tuesdays, 4 PM to midnight, and does not mention an open mic (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. A news feature on the venue covers trivia nights, not an open mic [s2]. Nothing found shows a Tuesday open mic. The web address once expected for the bar now carries unrelated gambling content, which does not mean it closed.
A listing site gives Monday at 7 PM for this open mic [s1]. A different listing site gives every Wednesday at 8 PM for the same venue [s2]. No website was found for the venue, so neither figure could be checked against a venue-owned source, and which day is correct is unresolved.
The host's own open-mic page, checked Aug 14, 2026, states the event happens every Thursday at 7 PM in The Basement at The Comet, confirming a weekly cadence [s1].
Weekly on Tuesdays, 8:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
A news article published Jun 17, 2026 lists The Crow's Nest's open mic on Tuesdays, 8 PM to midnight [s1]. An open-mic listing site checked Aug 14, 2026 confirms the same weekly Tuesday night [s2]. Other online descriptions say it has run since 2006, with an Americana and bluegrass lean.
A news article dated Jun 17, 2026 lists The Hoffner Pub among current Cincinnati open-mic venues with a Tuesday entry [s1]. The venue's own homepage, checked Aug 14, 2026, made no mention of an open mic [s2]. Checked again Sep 5, 2026, the pub's own site embeds a public calendar [s3]. That calendar shows a weekly Open Mic Night every Tuesday at 7 PM, recurring for at least twelve consecutive weeks through late November [s4].
The Venue's Website, checked Aug 14, 2026, confirms an 'Open Mic — Share your talent with the crowd' offering exists, though the page does not state which day it runs [s1]. A news article dated Jun 17, 2026 separately names the venue with a Wednesday, 7 PM slot [s2]. Another listing calls the same night 'Keep It Open Cincy,' suggesting a traveling promoter may run it rather than the venue, unresolved here.
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 Website returns almost no readable content at either its homepage or its events page, both times checked, so it neither confirms nor rules out the Thursday open mic (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. No other dated source describing this event was found.
The venue's own dedicated Word of Mouth page, checked Aug 14, 2026, states the event runs every final Sunday at 6 PM upstairs at MOTR Pub [s1]. It is a separate, distinct event from MOTR's Tuesday music open mic at the same address.
The venue's own page, checked Aug 14, 2026, made no mention of Wednesday, Kirby, or a songwriter showcase, and a linked calendar page held no event listings [s1]. Checked again Sep 5, 2026, the venue's own live events calendar for September 2026 lists Brent Kirby's songwriter showcase on its usual first-and-third-Wednesday schedule [s2]. It remains a pre-arranged showcase rather than a walk-in open mic.
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
The blues society's own events page lists a second-Monday-of-the-month jam with rotating host bands — Real Deal Blues Band, JUJU Blues Band, ABB with Butch Armstrong, and a Pam E Williams host band, plus one slot marked TBD — and references several 2026 dates (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. Which specific room hosts the jam remains unresolved.
The Venue's Website, checked Aug 14, 2026, describes its regular weekly programming and says 'Stop in for open mic' [s1]. This matches the Wednesday open mic already listed here.
The university's own newsroom article, checked Aug 14, 2026 and carrying a 2025 timestamp, describes an Open Mic Night at The Spot in Leutner Commons, hosted by Student Activities and Leadership [s1]. Its wording describes the event's start rather than stating how often it now recurs, so the cadence remains undetermined.
A page on litcleveland.org lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Thursdays, 9:00 PM. Only one source reports it.
An open-mic listing site's page for this event carries a single dated instance from Apr 25, 2025, over a year old, with no more recent date (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. Literary Cleveland's own calendar for its 'One Mic Open' series, through Nov 2026, lists only its own office and, for one month, a venue called Inkubator, not Happy Dog [s2]. The series may have moved elsewhere, though nothing says it stopped here.
The venue's own events page, checked Aug 14, 2026, describes a 'Spoken Word: Poetry Open Mic' with an instance listed as December 5th, 7–9 PM [s1]. This matches the first-Thursday-of-the-month pattern already listed here. No year appears next to that date, so whether it refers to a 2025 or 2026 date is unresolved.
The organization's own event page, checked Aug 14, 2026, lists One Mic Open dates for 2026 as Aug 14, a September date at Inkubator, Oct 9, and Nov 13 [s1]. The dates fall on different days of the week and different weeks of the month, so the schedule is irregular rather than a fixed weekly or monthly pattern.
Fridays. How often is unclear. Only one source reports it.
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The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.
A poetry open-mic directory still lists a 'Broadsides & Ephemera' entry for this venue (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. The listing is undated and does not establish which day it runs or whether it is still current.
The venue's events page suggests it may have ended.
Weekly on Mondays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The venue's own schedule page does not mention an open mic anywhere (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. Separately, the venue's posted hours have been described elsewhere as closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, the day this open mic is said to happen, though that detail was not checked again this time.
A page on noblebeastbrewing.com lists this night, but may not be current.
The venue is known to offer live music generally, but no source confirms a specific open-mic day or time. Checking the Venue's Website on Aug 14, 2026 failed to load at all, so nothing further could be confirmed [s1].
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The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
The coffee chain's locations page does not mention an open mic or Sunday, but this page lists store locations rather than events, so this is inconclusive rather than a strong negative (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. No dedicated events page for the chain was found.
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
Weekly on Thursdays, 5:30 PM. Only one source reports it.
The only source for this open mic is a listing site whose page shows a start date of Aug 14, 2026, exactly the date it was checked, a pattern already known to be a placeholder rather than a real date on this site. This does not by itself support the event being currently active [s1].
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
A review site lists the venue as closed, per an update from April 2026, though a single directory tag like this is not conclusive on its own. The venue's Facebook page has appeared to still exist. Checking it on Aug 14, 2026 could not load the page, so nothing further could be confirmed either way [s1].
Sources mention Wednesdays but are not confirmed; actual night is unclear.
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The venue's own Front Stage events page, checked Aug 14, 2026, lists Open Mic Night on Wednesday, Aug 19, 2026 and again on Wednesday, Aug 26, 2026 [s1]. The current host is named as Poor Duncan, correcting an earlier listing that named Moon Cactus; the Wednesday night itself is unchanged.
The Venue's Website lists this night, but may not be current.
The Venue's Website has previously listed live music, trivia, movie screenings and a Tuesday punk night, with no open mic mentioned. The site would not load on Aug 14, 2026, so what its calendar shows now is unknown [s1].
Weekly on Thursdays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The parent organization's homepage does not mention an open mic or Thursdays (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. The Cafe at Arts Collinwood is specifically a program of that organization, which may have its own page not captured by the homepage, so this does not rule out the event continuing.
Every other Monday, 8:30 PM; which weeks is unclear.
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The venue's events page lists this night, but may not be current.
A comedy night called 'Make Em Laugh Mondays', hosted by Kevin Ford, has been associated with this venue's complex. The venue's own calendar would not load on Aug 14, 2026, so whether the night still runs is unknown [s1].
Weekly on Wednesdays, 8:00 PM. The Venue's Website does not mention it.
The coffee chain's own locations page does not mention an open mic, Wednesdays, or a host named Mosbrook (checked Aug 14, 2026) [s1]. The chain's homepage shows the same absence [s2]. It remains possible that the specific Cleveland Heights location has its own page that was not checked.