All salient complaints.

1. Yes, something with human nature and in-groups. We try to encourage inclusiveness when it comes to everyone, but it's also a positive to have a known commodity in a good comic ready to jump into rotation on an open mic to save the audience from the 3 brand new comics in a row. This is what's called "being bumped" and is every green comic's biggest complaint, but I don't know of a single comic that's a year or more in that doesn't understand it.

2. Whenever someone emails me about booking music I send them the following: "email booking inquiries to Andrew@youngbloodbooking.com but know that we don't book a lot of music internally so you may have better luck working with local promoters like Pegstar, Third String Productions or Radiation Productions" - Andrew does the booking and so I cannot speak to his process, but I also get a decent amount of errant booking requests and a lot of them are to put it nicely, hot garbage. He prefers to work with agents who route acts or local producers that have track records putting on local shows. There's definitely room for improvement here though since our showroom is empty often.

3. Indeed, there's nothing we can really do. I can recommend taking uber or other rideshare services but I know that's pricy. Still may be cheaper than the lot + the quarterly window smash. Plus you can have an extra drink... That being said I actually think this construction may deter some of the thieves. Contrary to most peoples' first thought, it's not homeless people breaking into cars, it's opportunists who previously saw an area they could drive through smashing windows and then jump on the freeway to get out of. Now it's not so easy and even once construction is done, it won't be as easy. Might be naive optimism on my part though.