## Source discovery: open mic/poetry, drag/nightlife, board game cafes, vintage markets, silent disco, comics, escape rooms, karaoke, science/planetarium

Ran a rotation not covered by the last few cycles (which focused on
food/drink, music/arts/comedy/books/festivals/running, and
food/city.gov/RSS/holiday/science-lecture/maker/record-store/theater/
hiking/tech/social-dance): open mic & poetry, drag/nightlife, board
game cafes, vintage/pop-up markets, silent disco, comic book stores,
escape rooms, karaoke bars, and planetarium/observatory public
programs.

The large majority of leads resolved to sources already `added` or
previously evaluated candidates (558 files in `docs/source-candidates/`
prior to this run):

- ❌ Skipped (already covered): Julia's on Broadway / Le Faux (recurring
  YAML), Queer/Bar (ripper), Dreamland Bar & Diner Fremont (recurring
  YAML — Dream Girls Drag Brunch), The Missing Piece (ripper).
- ❌ Skipped (already tracked, no change): Mox Boarding House —
  Ballard/Capitol Hill (both `mox-boarding-house.md` and
  `mox-boarding-house-seattle.md`, `status: notviable` — Shopify store,
  no event API), Meeples Games West Seattle (`status: blocked` —
  SiteGround captcha).
- 🔁 Re-sighted (existing candidate, status `investigating`, no change):
  Raygun Lounge Capitol Hill — re-fetched `/calendar/`; still no
  JSON/API/widget reference in the static markup. `lastChecked` bumped.
- Karaoke bars (Rickshaw, Hula Hula, The Crescent Lounge, Ozzie's, 4Bs
  Tavern), Seattle comic shops (Phoenix Comics & Games, Zanadu, Golden
  Age Collectables, Comics Dungeon), and general-purpose Seattle escape
  rooms — none publish a discoverable events calendar/feed; their
  "events" are nightly standing schedules or one-off promos (Free Comic
  Book Day), not a scrapable source. Not logged as individual candidate
  files — no URL cleared even the "has a public events page/feed" gate.
- Silent Dance Alki (West Seattle beach silent disco, monthly) and
  SoundDown Seattle (headphone-rental service, not an event source) —
  no structured calendar found; not logged as candidates.

New leads:

- ✅ Added: Theodor Jacobsen Observatory (UW's on-campus 1895
  observatory) — built-in `eventbrite` type — PR pending — recurring
  public open-house evenings (public talk + telescope viewing),
  organizer `UW Astronomy Outreach` (Eventbrite organizer ID
  `8618644131`, confirmed from a live per-date event page). See
  `docs/source-candidates/theodor-jacobsen-observatory.md`.
- 💡 Candidate: Pop-Up Poetry Slam Seattle — Wix, custom ticketing —
  https://popuppoetryseattle.com/ — monthly slam competition,
  rotating neighborhood venues, but `/event-list` currently shows only
  one event and it's already past (Feb 5, 2026) — 0 upcoming events at
  time of check, re-evaluate next cycle.

No dead sources flagged this cycle — did not re-run `dead-sources.py`
against a fresh build (build-report already ran it recently with no
30-day-streak flags; see 2026-08-12 log).
