It started in a bar, as so many ideas do: an NCAA-tournament style bracket for singles. A friend of mine and I had been weighing the benefits of one arty activity over another, with the deciding factor being, well, men. As in, when you're over the Saturday night bar scene, where else can you go to meet people? It got me thinking: what if you canvassed the arts & culture scene and plotted out the possibilities on a bracket? ...

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It started in a bar, as so many ideas do: an NCAA-tournament style bracket for singles. A friend of mine and I had been weighing the benefits of one arty activity over another, with the deciding factor being, well, men. As in, when you're over the Saturday night bar scene, where else can you go to meet people? It got me thinking: what if you canvassed the arts & culture scene and plotted out the possibilities on a bracket? ...

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It started in a bar, as so many ideas do: an NCAA-tournament style bracket for singles. A friend of mine and I had been weighing the benefits of one arty activity over another, with the deciding factor being, well, men. As in, when you're over the Saturday night bar scene, where else can you go to meet people? It got me thinking: what if you canvassed the arts & culture scene and plotted out the possibilities on a bracket? ...

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It started in a bar, as so many ideas do: an NCAA-tournament style bracket for singles. A friend of mine and I had been weighing the benefits of one arty activity over another, with the deciding factor being, well, men. As in, when you're over the Saturday night bar scene, where else can you go to meet people? It got me thinking: what if you canvassed the arts & culture scene and plotted out the possibilities on a bracket? ...

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List Price: $1,450,000
Sale Price: $1,325,000
The Property: William Wood Prince, the Chicago philanthropist and executive whose family once controlled the Union Stockyards and the Armour & Co. meat empire, has sold a 19th-century rowhouse in Chicago’s Old Town that he had owned for two decades.

The tall red-brick rowhouse, built in 1886, has classic good looks: a half-hexagon bay rimmed with high, limestone-capped windows stretches up to an overhanging cornice. Inside, the dining room, kitchen, and family room are on the ground floor (where the servants’ workspaces would have originally been), and there is a 450-square-foot living room on the second floor (where the raised front door is). The master suite is on the third floor, and there are three more bedrooms above that...

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Here's what it's like sharing a bed with 39-weeks pregnant woman. Or, at least, with mine.

Early this morning, I was sleeping peacefully when I felt a tugging on my shirt. I rolled over and Sarah was staring at me, wide awake.

"What's up?" I asked. "Is it time?"

"No. I'm miserable."

"What's the matter?"...

"I've got a fucking human being in my stomach, that's what's the matter." ...

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