www.kgstores.com
5410 EAST 82nd STREET INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46250
317-845-4271
Open M-F 10:00am-9:00pm
SAT 10:00am-9:00pm
SUN 11:00am-7:00pm

Peanut will give away Translucent Styling Salon makeovers, hair tips, answer questions, and interview artists every Thursday at 3:45pm on the Kingdom Takeover on AM1310.

For more information about Translucent Styling Systems logon to:
www.translucentstylingsystem.com

8319 N. Michigan Rd

317-334-0911

Want to show your support for the 2010 Indianapolis Jazz Festival? Head to the airport for free, pre-festival music in the Civic Plaza!   Jazz fans of all ages are invited to attend INDy Jazz – an airport event to showcase local musicians from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, September 9^th.  Performers include Cathy Morris, Cynthia Lane, Jan Aldridge Clark, Rob Dixon, Zach Lapidus, and others. A total of 16 musicians will play every 30 minutes and the evening will end with one great jazz session.   When you arrive at the airport on Thursday the 9^th, parking is free, and you can enjoy a glass of wine or other beverages at Vinea, fresh sushi from Naked Tchopstix, a burger at the Indy500 Grill, a salad at Café Patachou, or other choices for a snack or meal. Plus, make sure to register to win two VIP passes or one of 12 tickets to the Indianapolis Jazz Fest at Optimist Park in Broad Ripple on Saturday, September 18^th.  The airport is also giving away free CDs and other goodies. Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 9^th from 5 to 8pm for free pre-festival music at Civic Plaza at the airport.

It’s happening in our atmosphere! Entertainment, shopping, and dining in the airport’s Civic Plaza. Visit indianapolisaiport.com to learn more!

P: 317-898-2751

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That is the simple wisdom delivered by our baby sitter today… as she came to take care of my 4-and-a-half-year-old daughter. I was on my way to work and we were telling her about our morning. We’d gone to visit my dad in a nursing home near us. He’s in the final throes of dementia. He doesn’t speak, can’t feed himself, can’t go to the bathroom or wash himself. It’s heartbreaking.

But my daughter Isabelle and I over the two years have developed a little ritual as he’s declined. We buy candy on the way to share with Gramps (today, popular choice, Gummi Bears.) On the bus uptown, she tells the lady sitting next to us that she’s going to visit her grandpa — “he’s in a nursing home, in a wheelchair,” she says very matter-of-factly — with no sense of the heartache that would make it hard for me to get the words out… even to a stranger on the bus.

When we get there, Daddy is in his usual place, in his wheelchair in the day room on a locked floor with all the other dementia patients. He’s quiet now… as opposed to what he was like even five years ago, when he was gregarious, warm, quick to laugh, generous with a hug or a handshake. Now, pretty much a blank stare… although if you bend down close to his face, he’ll pucker his lips for a kiss. And if you take his hand, he’ll hold on tight. The last vestiges of the social guy he once was.

So, we opened the candy and Isabelle checked out the color ratios (”Lots of reds today, Mama, Gramps likes the red ones.”) The math is easy for her… one for him, two for her, give or take. We gently hold them up to his lips and he takes them. It’s sad, but it’s something. A shared experience.

The women who work there love to make a fuss over Isabelle and she obliges with smiles and twirls. They start making preparations for lunch and Isabelle decides we should stay and feed Gramps lunch. The last time we did this, I could barely cut the food through my tears… but if she was game, I was game.

So, the food came… she buttered the bread… I cut the chicken… he ate pretty well. I didn’t cry, she was very sweet and encouraging… “That’s good, Gramps”… mimicking my words, “Here you go, sweetie.” That’s what I would say when I was feeding her not too long ago, “here you go, sweetie.” Full circle, I think.

As we were going down in the elevator, I told her how proud I was of how helpful and kind she was to Gramps. Does she understand what a gift it is, to hold his hand without any words? To feed someone who used to love to tuck into any meal? I’m glad she’s really just grown up with the visits being a matter of course every couple of weeks. No big deal.

Of course, for me, it is. She is blossoming as my father is withering. He will never get to enjoy her the way I know he would have… reveling in her enthusiasm for life, her smile, her laughter, her accomplishments. All these thoughts and emotions are rattling around in my brain and heart on the way home.

And then our baby sitter… the ever-practical, warm and loving woman from the Caribbean… delivers her simple and comforting wisdom, “That’s the way it is, Sara, once a man, twice a child.”

Yes, I think, it is.
I know it.
I see it.
I feel it.

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7860 N. LAFAYETTE ROAD

INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46278

317-297-5800

6pm

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AUGUST 26-29

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*It’s official – Chad Ochocinco will be a part of VH1′s “Basketball Wives” next season as the love interest of cast member Evelyn Lozada – even though the Cincinnati Bengals receiver is not a basketball player and Lozada is not a wife.

Chad, according to TMZ, has signed a deal to shoot several scenes between September and October, with shoots scheduled around his NFL obligations.

Some of his scenes will take place in Miami, where the show is based, whenever his schedule permits, according to TMZ. However, “VH1 wants Ochocinco material so badly that they’re willing to shoot scenes out in Cincinnati too,” the Web site reports.

Meanwhile, No. 85 received a $25,000 fine this week for tweeting during his last NFL pre-season game.

The league tagged him for two violations during an Aug. 20 matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles — possessing an electronic device and posting messages on Twitter. NFL players are not allowed to post messages on social media websites starting 90 minutes before kickoff and until postgame media obligations are fulfilled.

Ochocinco tweeted once at 6:50 p.m. ET and another at 9:53 p.m. ET. The game kicked off at 8:07 p.m. ET.

His tweet at 9:53 p.m. was regarding a hit he absorbed in the game.

“Man Im sick of getting hit like that , its the damn preseason [expletive]! 1day I’m gone jump up and start throwing hay makers , #Tylenolplease,” he wrote.

Ochocinco commented on the fine and apologized to the NFL on Tuesday — through Twitter, of course.

“I’ve been fined by the league a substantial amount of money for tweeting, 1st time twitter hasn’t made me money but cost me money,” he wrote.

His apology tweet stated: “Dear NFL I apologize for tweeting during the game but that was 2 months of my Bugatti payments you just took from me, I won’t do it again.”