Julia Dixon Evans
Arts Reporter/Host, The FinestJulia Dixon Evans hosts KPBS’ arts and culture podcast, The Finest, writes the KPBS Arts newsletter, produces and edits the KPBS/Arts Calendar and works with the KPBS team to cover San Diego's diverse arts scene.
Previously, Julia wrote the weekly Culture Report for Voice of San Diego and has reported on arts, culture, books, music, television, dining, the outdoors and more for The A.V. Club, Literary Hub and San Diego CityBeat. She studied literature at UCSD (where she was an oboist in the La Jolla Symphony), and is a published novelist and short fiction writer. She is the founder of Last Exit, a local reading series and literary journal, and she won the 2019 National Magazine Award for Fiction. Julia lives with her family in North Park and loves trail running, vegan tacos and live music.
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San Diego artist and author Susie Ghahremani has a new picture book, "She Wanted To Be Haunted," which packs sinister treats for all ages. -
The San Diego Natural History Museum announced they will remain closed through the rest of the year and will refocus on distance learning, conservation, outdoor and nature programming and renovating the interior space. -
This weekend, find spacey dance with the City Ballet of San Diego, Vivaldi in a parking lot with Mainly Mozart's new "Mozart at the Drive-In" series, a virtual encore of Roustabout's 2017 "Margin of Error" production, a radio play of Miranda Rose Hall's "Best Lesbian Erotica 1995" and CSUSM's "Re-use Project" at Hill Street Country Club. -
KPBS Midday EditionLocal theater company performs original compositions based on stories and memories to honor and eulogize lives lost. -
We're listening to new music from EST, Chauncey Maynor, Carrie Feller, Hllndr, Lyra Pramuk, Kenseth Thibideau and Pea Hicks. -
TwainFest kicks off a virtual festival, plus stories inspired by art at Lux Art Institute, youth actors present a classic, a poetry workshop with Gill Sotu and the Spreckels Organ Society continues their weekly webcasts.
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KPBS Midday EditionOur guest for Midday Edition's weekend arts preview segment this week is Andrea "Angie" Chandler, with recommendations for visual art, theater and a photography zine signing event.
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- More than 200,000 Afghan allies without options as resettlement ends
- El Cajon police chief disagrees with attorney general over sanctuary law
- State Democrat lawmakers move forward with plans for redistricting vote
- Downtown special event parking prices draw backlash from San Diego groups