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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Prolific transborder mixed-media artist Griselda Rosas lets place and migration economics inform her work — on view in four different shows in February and -
KPBS Midday EditionPlus San Diego Dance Theater returns to the stage and Luis Gonaz -
Local museums – along with Museum Month and library-based free pass programs –are taking measures to expose art to broader and diverse audiences by cutting admission fees -
Notable releases and news from San Diego's music scene right now -
The Agite y Sirva Dance Film Festival is hosted by San Ysidro's FRONT Gallery -
The time (and the light) is right for the San Diego Art Prize finalist's newest solo exhibition
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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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