The Awaken Café is so California, they declare 4 days a week to be wi-fi free. Little signs on the…
If its name and tribal statement weren’t enough to grab a poet by the shoulders and steer her inside, the…
It’s been a while since I hit what must be the most gothic open mic in Nashville (if not the known…
The slam and open mic at The Green Mill wasn’t the first out-of-town open mic I hit, but it did…
The (erstwhile and sadly now defunct) longest-running open mic in the Triangle surely owes its place in the record books…
After 5 years of reading at open mics, I haven’t seen it all but I’ve seen a lot. So far,…
Some mics are more open than others. On the second Tuesday of each month, at West End Wine Bar in…
At its best, an open mic can become a kind of local artists’ colony. From what I saw this week,…
It’s been three years since the first time I dared to hit an open mic beyond the boundaries of what…
Open mics are like hair styles and lovers and garden art and…well, anything we choose based on what we like…