A Mariachi band made up of women played as a flood of 80-year-olds quickly filled up the first five rows of the Carlsbad Dove Library auditorium last Saturday. All of them seemed to know each other, and...

Joyce Carol Oates visited the Carlsbad library on the evening of Friday, Feb. 27, to deliver a lecture discussing her writing and how she and other authors get inspiration for their work. Through Oates’s...