Top Ten Movies
- Scarface
- KIDS
- Paris is Burning
- Sunset Boulevard
- GIA
- Chinatown
- Belly
- American History X
- The Matrix
- Fantastic Planet
Top Ten Albums
- Solange: True, A Seat at The Table, When I Get Home
- Tame Impala: Currents
- NERD: In Search Of..
- MF DOOM: Operation Doomsday
- Freddy Gibs: Piñata
- Blood Orange: Negro Swan
- Kendrick Lamar: To Pimp a Butterfly, DAMN
- Cut Copy: In Ghost Colors
- Mort Garson: Mother Earth’s Plantasia
- Three 6 Mafia: Da Unbreakables
- Madlib: Shades of Blue
Top Ten anything Chicago
- Richard’s Bar
- Hollywood Ave Beach
- Humboldt Park Car show
- The California Clipper
- Broadway Antique Market
- Garfield Park Conservatory
- Miko’s Italian Ice
- Au Cheval
- 9. Papa’s Cache Sabroso
- 10. Friend’s Ramen
- 11. Pie at Spinning J’s
Top Ten Books
- The Secret Life of Plants, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird
- The Prophet, Khalil Gibran
- Letters to a Young Poet, R. M. Rilke
- The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
- The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Dave Hickey
- Essays and Fictions, Brad Phillips
- Seeing is Forgetting, Forgetting the Thing One Sees, Robert Irwin
- Just Kids, Patti Smith
- A Brief History of Time, Steve Hawkins
- Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
Top Ten Artists
- Isa Genzken
- Sigmar Polke
- Kerry James Marshall
- Mary Heilmann
- Anthony Hernandez
- Wolfgang Tillmans
- David Hockney
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Friedrich Kunath
- Pia Camil
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