Ticket prices aren't too steep, but maybe that's because they realize how awful and douchey their venue is. For a theater the size and feel of Home Depot, they have a badly-directioned, tinny and small sound setup. The attitude of the bouncers depends on the alignment of far-off star systems it seems. Sometimes they openly deride and bully kids and other times they're nice, helpful and don't treat you like a prison inmate like at the Marquee. Also, I guess the high school goth girls they have running the box office/tickets are too cute to clean ANYTHING there or they're too cheap to hire some sort of janitorial service, because holy christ I've never seen more disgusting bathrooms and floors and lobby. I know it's a RAWK venue but they also pride themselves on continuing the tradition of the theater space on their website.\n\nBut really, as nearly every other review has stated: $2 just to go out and smoke or take your merch to the car or do whatever the hell you'd like to do? That's just ridiculous. It serves absolutely no other purpose than to make money. The Nile IS a predominately teenager-dominated venue and the kids deserve better. They're locked in enough at school by bully enforcement authority figures. They don't need the possible best nights of their young lives ruled by that too.\n\nStill, the Nile isn't all bad. They book great acts, many small and up and coming and that's admirable. They just need to respect their CUSTOMERS and the kids whose lives are maybe being changed there every night.