L.A.’s Celebrated Alma Will Close“Short of continuing to roll the boulder up the hill, we were going to destroy our staff and ourselves.”
BySierra Tishgart
Interviews
Why Critically Acclaimed Alma May Have to CloseWriters called L.A.’s Alma the country’s best new restaurant. Now it needs $40,000 just to stay open. Chef Ari Taymor explains what happened.
Comedian Eugene Mirman Starts His Days With SoupYou’ve probably seen self-described absurdist nightclub comedian Eugene Mirman in Flight of the Conchords, opening for bands like Modest Mouse, or in hilarious online shorts like the one in which he plays a mustached Russian émigré having his first, ill-fated encounter with vegetable wonton soup. In actuality, Mirman has for several years lived and dined in Park Slope — where he’s at work on a book of fake advice, The Will to Whatevs, and a documentary about returning to his birthplace, Russia — and he’s such a fan of soups that he fixes them for breakfast. As he gears up to record a Comedy Central special that will air in the winter, we asked him what else he’s been noshing on.