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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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. -
Contemporary artist Cauleen Smith responds to deception, time and the dark void in Juan Sánchez Cotán's still life work with a new video work at San Diego Museum of Art -
Facing an uncertain future without federal relief funding, live music venues like the Casbah and Belly Up offer performances from their stages, without the audiences. -
Find San Diego art and culture events beyond Comic-Con this weekend with Moxie's Dinner and a Zoom, a live outdoor front yard dance performance, the Athenauem's juried art exhibition and a livestreamed front porch concert from Berkley Hart. -
San Diego playwright, performer and rapper Miki Vale launches SoulKiss, a new healing arts space specifically for LGBTQ+ women of color.
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KPBS would like to hear from you about your awareness and participation in cultural arts in the South Bay. -
Here is a list of some of KPBS' picks to ring in the Year of the Rabbit and Cat in San Diego County. -
A new outdoor exhibition of photography, ephemera, video and more explores the role of the Freedom Riders in their 1961 protests.
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