Harvey Weinstein Gets May 1 Hearing On Overturned Rape Conviction

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“Making my own product using all the knowledge and skill that I’ve amassed over my life, and getting good sake into someone’s belly makes working all day and night worthwhile,” he adds. Both Nakamatsu and Rugg believe that they can help to change that perspective, one party-ready 200-millileter can at a time — but first they need a tasting room to call their own. Since 2019, the pair has been in a kind of marketing wormhole, using a name tied to Sawtelle Japantown while brewing out of a shared Ventura distillery space a county away.

If you like this wine, you’ll like this sake

Soft serve, the sweet savior of restaurants without pastry chefs, comes in two flavors, lately pandan and strawberry milk. Maybe ice cream will call to me more when the restaurant’s patio opens soon for warmer weather. For now it’s enough to savor the last drops of sake martini, catch the fading chords of “Crazy in Love” and bask one final minute in Budonoki’s buzz. Muscadet or Chablis → Taka Tokubetsu junmai, because it’s crisp, dry and minerally with a water source that has a lot of limestone influence. ShizuokaHome to Mount Fuji, Shizuoka is known for its soft, elegant, pretty style of sake. HyogoThe region, near Kobe, is where most of the really good Yamada Nishiki rice is grown.

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There are currently over 20 craft sake breweries across the country, all founded within the last 20 years or so, but some of the most innovative examples have emerged from my home state—made by Japanese American craftsmen. Some of these makers are even Issei (first-generation), with a direct connection to Japan’s thousands of years of sake history. Kimoto (生酛)This style includes sake made using the oldest way of making sake, called the Kimoto process. Instead of adding lactic acid and commercial yeast, long poles or feet are used to stomp the rice, koji and water together in order to dissolve the rice. This activates the natural yeast in the environment to build a starter, and lactic acid naturally forms in the mash.

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The ex-Celebrity Apprentice host and de facto GOP nominee’s hush-money trial is dark on Wednesdays. In a trial that saw Annabella Sciorra and several other women testify about alleged abuse from Weinstein, the producer was also ordered to register as a sex offender, a registration that likely will be removed at the May 1 hearing. In a 4-3 ruling on Thursday, the New York Court of Appeals said Weinstein’s conviction and 23-year sentence in the state is to be overturned. Writing for the majority, Judge Jenny Rivera said now ex-Justice James Burke “erroneously admitted testimony of uncharged, alleged prior sexual acts against persons other than the complainants of the underlying crimes” four years ago when he was overseeing the trial.

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Umami Mart is more than just a retailer—it's a space to discover new aspects of Japanese cuisine and culture. Den's sake-making philosophy is anchored in a deep respect for traditional wisdom and a commitment to innovation. Yoshihiro Sako and his wife Lani founded Den Sake in 2017 in the historic community of West Oakland.

Ginjo (吟醸)Rice that is polished to a ginjo level with distilled alcohol added. Sawtelle Sake hopes to open a tasting room at 1836 Sawtelle Boulevard this fall, and a brewery space in Los Angeles County next year. This website may or may not have links to third party websites.

Less than a week after Harvey Weinstein’s 2020 rape conviction was tossed by New York’s highest court, the much-accused Pulp Fiction producer is set to be in front of a judge. The three uncharged women who testified at the first trial — Dawn Dunning, Tarale Wulff and Laren Marie Young — would likely not all be called back to the witness stand if the second trial goes forward, in light of the Court of Appeals’ decision. A key part of Thursday’s ruling hinged on a finding by the high court the trial judge “erroneously” allowed three women to testify — even though no criminal charges were ever mounted against Weinstein tied to their claims.

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They also brew Yangban Society’s Korean makgeolli rice wine. The versatility of these sakes isn’t the only innovation taking place. American importers at the time simply did not carry it, so despite their careers in the tech industry, they decided to learn to brew it themselves. Despite, or perhaps because of, this weighted history, I still taste home in a bottle of Edna Valley pinot noir or craft sake, although the latter is far less recognized as a product of California.

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This style can be a little more aromatic and is a nice entry point for sake beginners. The word translates to “pure rice.” It refers to sake made with water, koji, yeast and rice. There is no legally defined polishing requirement for junmai. Kaplan, who was once responsible for the sake selection at wine shop Domaine LA, is the co-owner at the Japanese izakaya Tsubaki and the new Ototo sake bar and restaurant, both in Echo Park. The latter is where you’ll find the most comprehensive sake list in Los Angeles.

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Determine if you’d like something fruity, floral or aromatic. Think about what other things you like to drink including wine, beer and liquor to give sommeliers a sense of what type of sake you might like. Nama (生)The term means raw and refers to sake that is unpasteurized or pasteurized a single time. Not pasteurizing preserves some intensity of aromatics and more acidity.

Nova’s co-founders Emiko Tanabe (a native of Niigata Prefecture) and James Jin met while studying for their sake sommelier certifications, and after tasting their way through diverse styles of sake across Japan, returned to Los Angeles and began work toward building Nova. Olivia conceptualizes and brews a number of Sequoia’s sakes each year and helps her parents design its labels. The quality of the water contributes to different regions being known for different styles of sake. As you move from North to West, the sake gets sweeter and richer.

Seated at a table at Ototo on a recent afternoon, Kaplan helped me put together a complete guide to the Japanese rice wine. Here’s everything you ever wanted to know about the stuff, plus what to buy and where to find it. The two have also been clandestinely hosting “private, pre-booked events” for Sawtelle Sake at a ground-floor apartment just behind a row of commercial buildings on Sawtelle.

I’m in the minority over another recent, very popular creation, “Budo-gnocchi,” in which rice cakes and slippery shimeji mushrooms take an excursion to Italy under drifts of parmesan and black winter truffles. I like the bounce of rice cakes, but in this context their chewiness bulldozes over every other aspect of the dish. A few sips in and I’m ready to tear into the restaurant’s take on curry pan.

The team meets the limitations of a beer and wine license with creative gumption, in the form of cocktails laced with sake and shochu. The frozen one, churning away in a slushie machine behind the bar, blends a crisp, floral sake with blood orange, Aperol-adjacent Cappelletti Aperitivo and koji (the Japanese fermentation starter) for a savory-nutty hint of mystery. Big red wine → Sempuku, because it is made with an heirloom rice called Shinriki using the Kimoto method. Junmai Ginjo (純米吟醸)The distinction refers to the amount of rice that is polished away before the brewing process begins. Ginjo refers to rice that has between 50% and 60% of each grain remaining.