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 in San Diego: Art made from U.S Forest Service-engineered wood composite; more Hugo Crosthwaite; "Election"; Gill Sotu; Leila Khalilzadeh Aghdami and more at Art Produce; the final Nat at Night of the year; and lots of live music. -
This weekend in the arts: A fresh spin on "Antony & Cleopatra;" world premiere contemporary ballet; new installation and sculpture; cat videos on the big screen; SummerFest's closing weekend; Baja food and wine; Ameri'kana and more live music. -
This weekend in the arts: new, strange visual art from Melissa Walter and Manuel Alejandro Rodríguez-Delgado; "Booked for the Weekend"; Rachmaninoff and California; a new adaptation of "Cleopatra"; Miles Davis and lots of live music. -
Border artist Hugo Crosthwaite ventures into color with a new body of work on view at Bread and Salt — with more opening at Mesa College Art Gallery later this month. -
This weekend in the arts: Zines and music at the downtown library; Hugo Crosthwaite and more art at Bread and Salt; lowrider art at Mixed Grounds; a Sherlock Holmes-inspired play; "Blanket Sounds" at the Waterfront and more live music picks. -
Burn All Books and Particle FM are bringing a DIY ethos to a big festival of zines, music and art at the San Diego Central Library this weekend.
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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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