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A local couple sells handmade macramé sandals on the canal to support their vagabond lifestyle.

Clockwise from top: Chanel, $340; Dior, $335; Prada, $290; Tom Ford, $395; Eyebobs, $75; Chanel, $380; Gucci, $375; Dior, $335; Prada, $345. Eyebobs from Raleigh Limited, Fashion Mall, 317-844-1148, raleighlimited.com; all others from Saks Fifth Avenue, Fashion Mall, 317-816-0171, s5a.com

How do I love these 75-percent-off shoes? Let me count the ways.

I love how this gauzy little number with a gorgeously bejeweled collar could be dressed up with strappy gold heels and a cuff bracelet or down with flat sandals and little to no jewelry.

At the Moyer sale two years ago, I got a beautiful Judith Ripka knuckle-duster for 50 percent off!

“I go more for what feels good and what lasts,” says owner Shelly Petrowski, “because I know that these days, what we work out in is our outfit for the entire day.”

For Tinseltown-style digits, add blingy Minx decals like fishnet, houndstooth, and metallic lace.

“This aqua is a quintessential midcentury color. It reminds me of that time when everyone had a whole pink or blue kitchen.”

Who’s who among Indianans on the fast track in NYC, from breakout designers to NBA bigwigs.

This year’s tire art was unveiled on First Friday this month, May 3, in conjunction with the usual art gallery openings. Two winners in the al fresco art show were announced, with Global Gifts taking the top judged honor for its owl display.

Find the best picks for the book-club member, the city-chic niece, the snowboarding son, the choosy mother-in-law, and the domestic-goddess pal in your midst.

Polina Osherov, 41, photographer (at far left)

Dust off those old boxes in the attic and try to unearth that favorite childhood item—The Children Museum’s new interactive project, “100 Toys (& their Stories) that Define Our Childhood,” is taking votes from the public to decide which should earn the title of best plaything of the past 100 years.

I. The Vonneguts were here (and still are). The new Kurt Vonnegut mural along Mass Ave has made the likeness of Indy’s most famous author a permanent fixture of the cityscape. And the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library, opened in 2011, allows visitors to lay fingers on the very typewriter keys the giant once tapped (and […]