Favorite albums of 2022
St. Paul & The Broken Bones - The Alien Coast
Arcade Fire - WE
Lucius - Second Nature
Danger Mouse, Black Thought - Cheat Codes
Stromae - Multitude
Goose - Dripfield
Marcus Mumford - (self-titled)
Beyoncé - RENAISSANCE
Son Little - Like Neptune
Vance Joy - In Our Own Sweet Time
Honorable Mention: Caamp (Lavender Days), Maggie Rogers (Surrender), SZA (SOS), Taylor Swift (Midnights), Sylvan Esso (No Rules Sandy), Whitney (SPARK), The 1975 (Being Funny In A Foreign Language)
Best live performances I saw in 2022
Bonny Light Horseman - The Ark, Ann Arbor
Watchhouse - The Ark, Ann Arbor
Alt J - Masonic Temple, Detroit
Bon Iver - Forest Hills
Goose, National, Neil Francis, Paul Simon, Taylor Goldsmith, The Roots, Sylvan Esso, Joni Mitchell - Newport Folk Festival
Dan White Magic Show - Fotografiska
LCD Soundsystem - Brooklyn Steel
Favorite books of 2022
Live from New York - James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales
The Netanyahus - Joshua Cohen
Rogues - Patrick Radden Keefe
Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
Harry Potter x 7 (re-read) - J.K. Rowling
A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
To Paradise - Hanya Yanagihara
Anxious People - Fredrik Backman
City of Thieves - David Benioff
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz
Best places I ate in 2022
Criollo (Oaxaca)
Casa Oaxaca (Oaxaca)
Expendio de Maiz (Mexico City)
Tamarindos (Cabo)
Al Tayeb (Dearborn, MI)
Takoi (Detroit, MI)
Zahav (Philly, PA)
Pizza Beddia (Philly, PA)
Cafe Spaghetti (Brooklyn NY)
R&D Foods (Brooklyn, NY)
Bamonte's (Brooklyn, NY)
Knife and Fork Inn (Atlantic CIty, NJ)
Naranj (Marrakech)
L'Italien (Marrakech)
