The Pre After-Party Show is a new comedy show
hosted by The Sarcastic Squad at Berlin.

‘Squad will use a dueling stage arena with two stages, facing each other and separated by fifteen feet where the standing room audience will congregate. Each act will alternate stages and some will roam freely through the crowd during their performance. The sprawl structure makes the audience the center of the show combining short, fast-paced stand-up, sketch and musical improvisation to create an innovative and interactive event.

The Sarcastic Squad have had two successful seasons respectively at The Playground Theater and Kitty Moon Cabaret as well as have been featured at The Edge Comedy Club, Art Haus Graffiti, and consists of a rotating cast featuring some of Chicago’s strongest comedy talent.

‘Squad is founded by Adam Guerino (creator and host of The Filmmakers’ Lounge, co-creator and host of Art Haus, writer and producer of Mattress Matters.) Other cast members include Eric Lutz (former cast of Improv Kitchen and founder of Kids First Improv), Beth Stelling (finalist in “National Funniest Woman Competition” held in California and host of Entertaining Julia) and a rotating cast of top local and national talent.

The first two shows are Friday, April 24th & Friday, May 29th featuring Adam Guerino & Beth Stelling with Eric Lutz, Cameron Esposito, & Mike Lee

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSarcasticSquad
http://www.thesarcasticsquad.com

10pm to 11:30pm
$5 includes "Cosmix"
Berlin's popular alternative/electronica dance party
with DJ Greg Haus until 4am.

Thursday February 12th, 2009

BUNNY RABBIT (Live) w/ FIRE4EFKT & Nina Ramone

Doors open at 10pm Show at 12am, Ages 21+
$2 PBR /$3 Bomb Shots / $ 5 Absolut Cocktails
Hosted By
Scott Cramer, Miss Mini Shaina, Tantrum, Bobby Pins,  & Rew

As for those unfamiliar, a quick introduction

Bunny Rabbit and producer Black Cracker’s debut album, Lovers and Crypts, received world-wide critical acclaim from audiences and publications including VIBE MAGAZINE, THE NEW YORKER, DAZED AND CONFUSED, THE WIRE, PLAYBOY MAGAZINE, and many others. Bunny Rabbit’s unique rap style, Black Cracker’s genre-bending musicality, combined with their theatrically driven live performance amazed and surprised critics. Working in the confines of their home built studio in Brooklyn, they created a world where hip hop met fantasy and conceptual art. Combining influences ranging from post punk to Matthew Barney to booty bass, they birthed outrageous hits readymade for the dance floor.

Now Bunny Rabbit + Black Cracker have created the next chapter, BOOMBOOM!!, a new album that is a huge leap foward creatively and musically, the future of hip hop and pop music born out of today’s melting pot of influence and inspiration. BOOMBOOM!!  is an arsenal of pop hits that are original, seductive, and totally infectious with a wink and a nod to the avante guarde. The procative and visionary sounds of Bunny Rabbit + Black Cracker are now more realized than ever, and with three world tours, college radio chart-topping hits, and a devoted fan base they are ready to dominate the music world.

www.myspace.com/bunnyrabbitandblackcracker

You may recognize these fine fellas’


DJs Zach and Albert (FIRE4EFKT) are members of Ssion (pronounced "shun") is a ten-years-strong art-punk dance/design/film collective from Kansas City, Missouri. Ssion has gained notoriety not only for their gaydisco- meets-punk-rock musical stylings, but for their outrageous stage shows and videos, which incorporate a harem of dancers and backup singers, comically cheap home-made props, supersized video projections, over-the-top costumes and make-up, and a visual sense of wonder recalling something between twisted humor of Pee Wee’s Playhouse and the decadence of the cult musical, The Apple.

Equipped with gothic face paint, undeniable boyish charm and dances of animae characters in their heads, this duo is slated to take Chicago by storm with their enchanted industrial beats.

www.myspace.com/fireforeffect

http://www.myspace.com/jackiebeatrules

buy advance tickets at http://www.berlinchicago.com (will call)

www.myspace.com/ssion