Mike Doyle is a longtime autistic, gay, Jewish, Disnerd Chicago blogger.
Chicago
Jennifer, scribe of the blog, General Carlessness, is one of those Chicagoans who rides her bike year round and lives to tell the tale. Irrespective of the autumnal weather Chicago's been under since Memorial Day, technically we're in the heart of cycling season. As always, with the coming of allege
Chicago
We live in a photogenic city here in the nation's architecture capital. But there's a subset of Chicago bloggers who prefer to snap shots of a seldom-seen Windy City. These photobloggers concentrate on the urban ruins, forgotten buildings, and unsung spaces well off of most people's radar screens. H
Media
Since 1998, the LISC New Communties Program has rolled out resident-centric planning initiatives in 16 challenged neighborhoods on the Northwest, West, and South Sides of Chicago. Community Beat is a forum for LISC staffers to share news and updates about those NCP neighborhoods, and it works wonder
Marina City
People say the strangest things to me in downtown Chicago. This past weekend was a trifecta. Sunday afternoon I ran into Marina City's own Vincent Falk, aka the colorful, tour-boat-waving Riverace (rhymes with Liberace), standing together with Marina City Online scribe Steve Dahlman mid-span on the
Technology
Seventy-two words seems a random and abrupt limit to apply to a blog post. Maybe not to Ruibo Qian, the Uptown blogger known as King Princess, and Hugh Adam, blogging as Simian Sam.
Chicago
'Most notable of the pre-existing non-Trib blogs that have so far been added are CTA Tattler and Mike Doyle, of Chicago Carless, who is heading up Chicagosphere, a look at the Chicago blog scene.'--Chicagoist
Chicago
The greatest thing to happen to my personal blog this year was the inspiration I got from my hit-and-run ex to purchase a Flip Mino camcorder. The sub-$200, super-sub-compact wonder fits in my pocket with room to spare for my iPhone and takes an hour of digital video.
Chicago
How the modest Uptown Update blog made big trouble for the North Side's multi-million dollar Wilson Yard redevelopment project.
Marina City
Pastry Chef Chris would call to sniff at me later in the day, in between bouts of coughing. My old beau's new beau spent the weekend in the hospital with a high fever. The test results arrived back yesterday afternoon. 'Yep,' Chris said. 'He's got swine flu.'
Urbanism
Over the Memorial Day break, I scoured the Chicagosphere for evidence that a balanced opinion of the the Art Institute of Chicago's newly opened Modern Wing might exist somewhere on a website written in a ZIP Code beginning with 606. Fat chance.
Media
Two weeks ago, I alluded to a cool, new blogging project I was invited to be a part of. Today, that project is being unveiled as a public beta. As some of you already know, I'm talking about ChicagoNow, a new blogging community in development by the Chicago Tribune as a way to increase the masthead'
Media
Steven Dahlman is a professional pain in the ass. It's a skill that serves him well as the scribe of Marina City Online, the de facto community news site of downtown Chicago's famous twin condo towers.