This week’s puzzle features a photo by freelance photographer Greg Campbell from the Memphis Brooks Museum’s Chalkfest. 

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To use the da Vinci 5 robotic system, the surgeon sits at a console about 10 feet away from the patient and performs the procedure by remotely operating the robotic arms. 

In less than a year, enter the Baron Von Opperbean and the River of Time immersive playground on Mud Island to be transformed into the main characters in an open-world video game in a real-world space.

Tuomas Iisalo only got to coach fifteen games and have two practices, but the work he did in his interim role was enough to earn him the full-time coaching job.

Here’s a look at what was happening in Memphis in May of 1925 as an engineers’ convention, that included a riverboat cruise south on the Mississippi River, met in Downtown Memphis.

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A friend doesn’t let a friend leave Swamp Bar without trying the restaurant’s chicken soup dumplings. 

“Growth hasn’t paid for itself, and government expenses have grown faster than the growth,” one resident said, adding that the town’s budget has tripled throughout the same dozen years while the population has not even doubled.

Lines out the doors of driver services centers and clerk’s offices across Shelby County and beyond have stalled residents from getting a Real ID as the Wednesday, May 7, deadline gains. 

Redbirds lose Sunday, but win four of the six games in the series with Louisville and still hold on to first place in the West Division standings of the International League.

Also happening this week: The Shelby County Commission meets on Monday, but a planned budget talk at the meeting has been delayed.

The Shelby County Republican Party is hoping having partisan primaries in school board races will help them crawl back to relevancy in the Democratic-dominated county, even if they have little chance of winning some races.

Two ethics proposals return to the Shelby County Commission Monday. County Commissioner Edmund Ford Jr., who faces criminal charges himself, is accusing others of wrongdoing.

The second day of Riverbeat Music Festival included performances from Cage the Elephant, Public Enemy, The Killers and more. 

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“Life comes at us utterly unannounced. No spoiler alerts. No accurate forecasts. No fortune tellers. It’s just us and time. And for me, God.”

This week’s crossword puzzle is all about Star Wars.

“The City Council and County Commission meetings are often long, complicated and filled with technical language. But underneath all of it is a deep commitment to the city’s future.”

The DelTech Conference is slated for October 8-10 at the Downtown headquarters of Epicenter Memphis, a nonprofit known for its business-accelerator programs.

In an era in which it’s far from a given that the best local talent stays home to play for the Tigers, transfer Julius Thedford is the type of player Memphis diehards point to when making the case for the Tigers still owning the title of “The City’s Team.”

A headstone in Mt. Carmel Cemetery shows Tom Lee was born Feb. 18, 1885, and died April 1, 1952. Between those two dates, Lee mostly lived in Memphis.

100 years after the M.E. Norman capsized and Tom Lee rescued 32 people, The Daily Memphian tells the story of the disaster, Tom Lee and how the story has faded and returned to prominence in recent years.

On May 8, 1925, about 100 years ago, a steamboat capsized in the Mississippi River — a disaster that forced dozens of men, women and children to fight for their life against the current until a brave Memphian, a veteran river worker, reached out to help. 

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Calvary Episcopal Church will celebrate the reconstruction of its 1935 Aeolian-Skinner organ, which was nearly silenced by the 2023 theft of its pipes.

The Memphis Redbirds won game five of a six-game homestand Saturday against the Louisville Bats (Triple-A, Cincinnati Reds) at AutoZone Park.