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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Redwoods Music founder and songwriter Alfred Howard made us a playlist of music that influenced him as he kicks off a new, year-long songwriting challenge. -
San Diego fiber artist Mayra Camacho is here to help you create something beautiful — and maybe even functional -
KPBS Midday EditionA New San Diego-Based Documentary On Hospice And The Impact Of AIDS On The Gay Rights Movement -
Hill Street Country Club founder Dinah Poellnitz is finding art and hope in the ways local artists are taking their art off the canvas and into protests -
Patricia Rincon's retirement from UC San Diego amidst a pandemic means her students' final performances will be far from ordinary -
Dozens of local artists are painting a series of murals for shopkeepers with boarded up windows in La Mesa after looting damaged shops and businesses.
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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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