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The Buffalo News’ headline announces that there have been ten heroin overdoses in just 24 hours.

Editor’s note: Each week Buffalo lifestyle brand 

On Thursday, July 16 (perfectly-timed #716day) in his chambers, Mayor Byron Brown welcomed director and screenwriter Fred Olen Ray back to Buffalo as he begins filming another feature movie through the end of the month.

Now that summer is pretty much half over, that list of things you were going to do may be pressing on you.

Slim down for bathing suit? Too late for that.
Read a dozen improving books? Yeah, that’ll happen.
Launch a movie career? You’re in luck there!

Like that other Victorian fictional creation Count Dracula, Sherlock Holmes is clearly a character for whom the world has a bottomless appetite. There are presently two television series updating the “consulting detective” to modern times, a film series with Robert Downey Jr. whose third installment may or may not happen, and any number of one-off appearances. Being out of copyright clearly has something to do with it, but so is Dr. Henry Jekyll, who has popped up in films and TV less than 100 times compared to more than 300 for Holmes.

When he was 15, Devon Charles shared the stage with Jay Z. They sang “Big Pimpin’” together at what was then the HSBC Arena in front of a sold out crowd. I guess you could say it was his first gig, though when Charles woke up that morning, he had no idea he’d be on stage with Hova that night.

Charles’ father, a DJ for 93.7 WBLK had interviewed Jay Z the night before.