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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This weekend in the arts: Baby Bushka's farewell; dance, storytelling, music and art at ENVZN24; Christian Garcia-Olivo "Interlaced"; 'Jersey Boys'; Roman de Salvo; Hausmann Quartet; "Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo"; INSITE_LAB; plus Nnamdi, Charlie Porter Quartet and more live music picks. -
Tijuana-based dancer, choreographer and educator Pamela Macías is co-director of ConnectArte, and the company is choreographing a piece for San Diego Dance Theater's annual Trolley Dances program. -
Our top picks for dance in San Diego this season: Superstitions and hauntings; local oral histories; emerging choreographers; the 'resonance' of live music; and a new, women-led spin on Dracula. -
Our top picks for visual art in San Diego this season: Roman de Salvo; Carlos Castro Arias; San Diego Design Week; "Picturing Health"; and a region-wide exploration of science and art in the Getty's PST ART initiative. -
Our top picks for classical and jazz music in San Diego this season: Samara Joy; a binational jazz fest; legendary French band Cortex; folk-inspired compositions with the La Jolla Symphony; and contemporary, experimental composer Sarah Hennies. -
An inventive San Diego composer was tasked with creating the first piece of music to be performed in the San Diego Symphony's reopened indoor concert hall. Texu Kim's whimsical, folklore-informed "Welcome Home!!" is a study of what it means to come home.
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Our top picks for book events to check out this season: Fantasy, found family and queer joy; the life of Kenny G; Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen; the return of a beloved book festival; and a queer rom-com debut. -
Locally born productions shine at this year's Tony nominations. Plus, two Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical “Hell’s Kitchen” fueled by Alicia Keys songs, and the play “Stereophonic” about a ’70s rock band at the edge of stardom — each earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday. -
KPBS would like to hear from you about your awareness and participation in cultural arts in the South Bay.
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