If you’ve ever heard a friend or relative blither on about their newborn miracle with wide-eyed fervour and utter abandonment, then you know what it’s like talking to Fear & Loathing organizer Nick Babeu about his twisted festival of thrills, spills and chills. His drooling, cross-eyed little infant is finally able to wipe itself, and is celebrating its eighth year of dangerous rock ’n’ roll, mindless violence, wanton vomiting, drug use and simply sticking with its original theme—pure mayhem.
“I guess Fear & Loathing becomes more work with each passing year, but it’s not really like I consider e-mailing tranny strippers really work,” says Babeu. “When I started it at L’X while I was still in high school, I just wanted to have some weird shit happening between the bands and just make it more of a party, but now it’s really come into its own thing.”

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MONTREAL — In a legal showdown against a tax-wary former stripper, it’s the Canada Revenue Agency that’s been caught with its pants down.
The legal saga over $2 million in undeclared revenue began in storybook fashion at Chez Paree — a pricey Montreal strip club patronized over the years by wealthy executives and visiting athletes, including some prominent Hockey Hall of Famers.
Martine Landry was a dancer at the Montreal institution and was particularly popular with one rich, elderly customer who struck up a relationship with her.
He showered her with gifts over the years worth about $2 million: a Corvette, money to buy a BMW, eight fur coats, jewels, a vacation, cash to buy a downtown bar and get out of the dancing business, and $168,000 in $1,000 bills for a down payment on a house.
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Stripper gets last laugh on tax man

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