Mike Doyle is a longtime autistic, gay, Jewish, Disnerd Chicago blogger.
Chicago
I've covered some interesting items in the past few weeks on Chicagosphere, my blog about Windy City blogs on the Tribune's ChicagoNow online network. The network is still in beta, but the community is thriving and I'd love you to come be a part of it.
Media
I seldom take seriously local bloggers intent on taking over the online world. That is, with one exception: Steve Rhodes, Publisher and Editor of The Beachwood Reporter. Heading one of Chicago's top, homegrown news and content networks, every day Rhodes goes up against the best and brightest of the
Food and Drink
I admit it, for the first time in the six-and-a-half years that I've been a Chicagoan I had a good time at the Taste of Chicago. Not that I don't love shuffling at one mile an hour in direct 90-degree sunlight, eating over a trash can, running from wasps, and peeing in a porta-potty...
Chicago
Even on Chicago's Gay Pride weekend, some queers don't run with the crowd. Such is the case with Jeff Ramone, a Lakeview blogger and licensed massage therapist (a real one, folks) with a sardonic style that doesn't take the status quo--gay or otherwise--for granted.
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Media
'Fuck you, I'm from here!' Such was the reply from Justin Vestal, a staff writer at The Daily Blank, Chicago's new news satire site that yesterday launched into beta. Sitting down with their stable of comedy bloggers earlier this month, I had asked him what people should make of the fact that this W
Chicago
I rarely engage with other Chicagoans in the city's seemingly official pasttime of grousing about winter weather. But when it's 90 in the shade, my plaintive side takes a more public turn. No matter how cold the spring, we always face Divine retribution come late June. This city bakes from Gay Pride
Chicago
Jenni Prokopy is not to be underestimated. Founder and 'editrix' of ChronicBabe.com, a Chicago-based blog about young women experiencing chronic health issues, since June 2005 she has chronicled her personal journey with persistent illness. Along the way, she's provided messages of hope for young wo
Life
When Pastry Chef Chris gave Hoosierella the 18 extra chocolate-flavored condoms in May at our weekly Lido's Caffé coffee klatsch in Oak Park, no one expected them to come back.
Technology
This Apple fan has officially downsized his digital life and I couldn't be happier. For the first time since the mid-1990s, I'm down to one phone number and one email address. I know, I can't believe it, either. I'm officially calling Wednesday, June 17th, 2009, the date of my long-needed virtual ho
Media
Today, WLUW 88.7-FM's indie audio magazine, Outside the Loop RADIO, interviews Yours Truly sending out a call to action to local bloggers. Last week, I participated in a major local media conference and attended another. Both were aimed at finding ways to make online news sustainable in the Windy Ci
Media
Today, WLUW 88.7-FM's indie audio magazine, Outside the Loop RADIO, interviews Yours Truly sending out a call to action to local bloggers, finally, to organize amongst ourselves.
Technology
After 15 years of being a faithful Apple Mac fan, in 2009 I changed my mind. I realized I was living the Apple user life you never get to see in a 'Get a Mac' ad, controlled by a computer company set on telling me how I was allowed to use its products and how I wasn't. So one day I decided to say 'N