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Vera Bradley announces the 2014 dates of its annual Outlet Sale.

Silver in the City will soon start a downtown delivery service.

The Indie Arts & Vintage Marketplace, free interior-design tips, and a cool new offering for sorority girls.

The style this season is flat and workmanlike. Leave them unlaced at the top and wrap the strings around the boot.

Find out what Indy has to offer to satisfy your sense of style in clothing, lighting and even sports.

Cool workout wares, a breath of spring, and one big sale.

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Fashion Mall fun, a ginormous “garage sale,” and a name-your-price opportunity.

The stylish store closes its doors after three years in Fountain Square.

Including a colorful hardbound wedding album from Bohemian Red Images, by offbeat Indy photographer Katie Basbagill.

Okay, so Indy isn’t perfect. Nearly 20 percent of the city’s families lived below the poverty line last year, and as many as 5,000 people went homeless (while several times that many pets did). It’s enough to make you throw up your hands. Why not lend one instead? We found 66 ways to share time, money, or belongings. The only skills you really need are generosity and all-around swellness. And who knows? You might even have fun doing it.

The co-founders and CEOs, Randy and Angie Stocklin, met through Match.com. Randy was just a tad motivated: He’d previously started three businesses (and as it turned out, he read books on house-flipping during their honeymoon).

Your go-to guide to give back in specific ways to those less fortunate in the Indianapolis and Central Indiana communities.

“We were treading into unfamiliar territory, a rundown part of the city where even the most beautiful of white snow couldn’t disguise the gloom and desolation of the abandoned buildings.”

“I had a lot of disappointments, not being able to read. Problems in school, people making fun of me, people laughing. I left when I was about 15. I was good with my hands, so I tried going into Job Corps.”