Manchester's Bar of the Year launches new 'Science of Simplicity' cocktail menu
Manchester’s worst kept secret, Science & Industry launches 2019 with a complete cocktail menu overhaul… you know, ‘New Year, new me(nu)’ and all that.
Cocktails in the City - Manchester 2015
Filmed in The Great Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre, Cocktails in the City was a unique, immersive social event filled with ingenuity, class and finesse.
THE AMAZING ZORPAN!!!!!
The Amazing Zorpan is an enigmatic figure in the dark halls of magic. He's a world renown daredevil, with a foolhardy and almost absentminded disregard for life and limb. Zorpan's reckless audacity in the face of danger is disconcerting to say the least. What occurred in the past of this maniacal entertainer to lead him to attempt such impossibly futile and death defying feats of absurdity?
One popular, but unauthorized, biography entitled Zorpan, Daredevil of the Avant-Gard maintains Zorpan is the last in an ancient line of Hungarian Occultists. He is a gifted reader of palms and tea leaves, has the ability to breathe underwater, and communes with the spirits of the dead. Zorpan lives in a villa high in the Italian alps, sleeps on a bed of nails, and adheres to a strict diet of roasted song birds. Although he has, at last count, 16 wives scattered around the world, his closest companion is his peruvian manservant Arturo.
Another biographer, Dr. Darius Uccello, in his book The Madman's Circus, claims Zorpan is the inbred son of transient carnival folk. He was abandoned at the age of 7 in the bayous of Louisiana. Young Zorpan was adopted by a local Voodoo Priestess, and became skilled at wrestling alligators, piloting fan boats, and guessing people's weight. At the age of 20, he set out to find his real parents, a search that nearly destroyed him. In a bar fight in Alaska, a man took out Zorpan's right eye with an ice pick. His assailant turned out to be Zorpan's own father. The glass eye Zorpan now wears once belonged to Mary Todd Lincoln.
Some personal letters uncovered by historian Jacques St. Germaine in a flea market Prague, paint a startling new portrait of this quizzical figure. At the age of 9, Zorpan, son of a cheese merchant, was abducted by a blind magician and knife thrower, and was forced become his apprentice. With his new master, he toured Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and performed for Kings and Heads of State. After many years of cruelty, Zorpan's Master was found dead, with his throat slit ear to ear, in a opium den in Calcutta. Zorpan himself claimed to have no knowledge of this incident, as he was sleeping off a three week drunk in a Vancouver jail cell. He continued performing, this time on his own, for the most powerful and prestigious audiences around the world. The Amazing Zorpan's genius as a performer is matched only by his pure insanity, perhaps brought about by his addiction to a cocktail he refers to as The Elixir (3 oz. Bathtub Absinthe, 4 oz. Cough Syrup, 1 oz. Abyssinian Opium, and 2 oz. Benzene, an industrial solvent).
The strangest story to date, comes from a man named Jeff Wilson from Erie, Pennsylvania makes the erroneous claim that Zorpan is actually an incompetent madman. This man says The Amazing Zorpan is actually his cousin Leroy, a former carpet salesman, and father of three. His bizarre and hopelessly unachievable stunts, are inspired by madness brought about by untreated syphilis, which he contracted during a business trip to Sandusky, Ohio.
Who is The Amazing Zorpan? Magian and Master of Arcane Lore? An Abused and Tragic Entertainer? Or a Drug Addled Accident Prone Syphilitic Madman? Be careful what you ask as the truth may be even more disturbing than we think...
Manning Running Naked Trough Manchester City Found Dead
A man seen running naked through Manchester city centre has been found dead, police said.
The body of the man in his 20s was found at the bottom of a lift shaft on a construction site, off Goadsby Street, on Monday lunchtime.
Police had been called to reports of a naked man running through the Northern Quarter at 22:30 BST on Friday.
Officers are appealing for witnesses, but said his death was not being treated as suspicious.
A post mortem examination is due to take place later in the week to try to establish the cause of death.
'Tragic case'
Police said they were unable to find the man after they were called by people concerned for his welfare on Friday night.
The case has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission to look into how officers responded.
Det Insp Brian Morley said: This is a tragic case where a man has lost his life after apparently falling into a lift shaft and our thoughts are with his family at this time.
Our work now is concentrating on the minutes leading up to his death.
It was a normal busy Friday night and no doubt dozens of people must have seen this man. I have no doubt that if you saw him you would remember.
The man is thought to have got undressed near Abode bar, Piccadilly, and left a bag containing a laptop, phone and passport nearby.
Witnesses reported seeing him at the Holiday Express and Bluu bar in the Northern Quarter, before he climbed into the construction site, police said.