But the nursery’s massive oak tree and many of its tall camellia trees appeared unscathed. The problem now is water. The camellias and azaleas were last watered Jan. 7, and the hot dry Santa Ana ...

In the bleakest days of early 2021, when Courtney Kaplan and Charles Namba started believing that the pandemic would force the closure of Tsubaki, their modern izakaya in Echo Park, the couple ...