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Sleuth’s Magic Moment Of The Week With Dynamo
Dynamo is the magician from Bradford that everyone thinks makes David Blaine look like a charlatan and a con. If you like your magic, Dynamo is coming to Manchester 235 for an event called Cirque du Casino featuring Dynamo, which should be a blast and includes various circus themed acts throughout the night. Call 0161 828 0300 if you desire to book for 28 April. Sleuth will be going along too, he wants to ask the main man what it was like growing up in Bradford called Dynamo.
Oh you butter fingers, Dynamo
Sleuth’s Pudding Of The Week
Sleuth bumbled into the Olive Press restaurant on Jackson’s Row this week for lunch. He went for a snack and ended up gobbling down three courses. The toffee and banana meringue at £5.95 was a thing of beauty. Then again Sleuth is very partial to a meringue. This was a lush sweet gorgeous sugar rush of thick cream, sodden with toffee, lifted with banana and lightened with meringue. Sleuth ate the eight inch high beast in about three goes - it's pictured below half-munched. Then he ordered another one to take away, and wore it proudly like a hat down the street.
Gobble, gobble, gobble
Confidential’s New Reviewer Of The Week
This is Dorgo. Like Confidential’s Gordo (click here) but more hairy and more likely to eat vegetarian food. Steak is mostly a favourite though, and bones. Loves a good walk. Again unlike Gordo.
Dorgo - new reviewer
Confidential’s New Reviewer Eats Member Of Staff
Dorgo can be frisky if not given lunch quickly enough. He also likes to re-enact Indian artwork.
Dorgo has early lunch
Dorgo's favourite Indian antique
Sleuth’s Misapplication Of Twitter Address....Of The Week
Sleuth loved this Tweet from the I Love Bolton people, ‘Man bailed following assault in Bolton’. Eh. So in what particular is Bolton, loveable?
Sleuth’s Inane Tweet Of The Week
To the lady who wrote, ‘Whatever is the world coming to?’ and nothing else, the answer is ‘A sad end through the number of ridiculous tweets you fool'. You know who you are.
Sleuth’s Most Forced Point Being Made By A Humanitarian Organisation....Of The Week
Sleuth wasn’t sure about this press release from Amnesty International UK last week (their capital letters):
‘PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. EUROVISION: AZERBAIJANI ACTIVISTS SET TO PROTEST AT REPRESSION AS UK NAMES ‘PLEASE RELEASE ME’ SINGER AS ITS CHOICE.
‘On the day the UK announced Engelbert Humperdinck as its representative for this year’s Eurovision song contest in Azerbaijan, activists across the Eastern European state were set to protest against continuing repression.
'Tim Hancock, Campaigns Director of Amnesty International UK, said: “There is a deep irony in the announcement. Engelbert Humperdinck is famed for his song ‘Please Release Me’, yet, on the streets of Azerbaijan this Sunday protestors risk arrest by simply taking to the streets to display their discontent with the authorities.’
Sleuth says, ‘Dear Tim, there is no irony, just coincidence and you shoe-horning, very painfully, two completely different events together for a cheap effect over an important issue is frankly embarassing’.
Sleuth’s Fashion Tip Of The Week
As the smartest dressed dandy on the block, Sleuth knows a thing or two about fashion, such as the most dashing angle for a comb over, the correct use of corduroy and why one should never dress in camouflage gear during a formal event. So he was surprised not to be invited this week to the Harvey Nichols Spring/Summer Catwalk Show although he did sneak in wearing his come-on-girls blue trunks as depicted here.
The frow (front-row seats, fashionistas) were largely occupied by those famously tanned ladies known as WAGs. Louboutin shoes, scarlet soles and all, were of course the only footwear permissable. Shame then about this lady who forgot to remove the prominent labels. Sleuth has booked her in for a fashion consultation next week.
Louboutins horror
Sleuth’s Conservatives In Manchester Story Of The Week
Sleuth wouldn’t join any party or club that would have him but whilst spending the odd moment in Manchester’s temporary Central Library on Deansgate this week he had to smile at the cutting below. The city of Manchester presently doesn’t have a single Conservative councillor. This notice from way back in the 1860s reads: ‘At one time the Conservative cause was at a very low ebb in this district and it was at this time that John Bright said that if he could find a real Conservative working man in Manchester he’d put him under a glass case’. Plus ca change....
Conservatives in a Museum
Sleuth's Lies To Tell Tourists
Chief Executive of Manchester City Council, Sir Howard Bernstein, often serenades passers-by on Market Street in the city during his lunch breaks. Busking is where he makes most of his money. His favourite act is The Communards and this is him, pictured below, singing 1985 hit 'Don't Leave Me This Way'.
Sir H is a big fan of The Communards
