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: Otherworldly sculptures, emerging artists, a public art legend, "whodunit" theater, jazz icons, letters to Shakespeare's Juliet and live music picks. -
KPBS Midday EditionA San Diego author offers simple and tasty recipes for people on-the-go. Plus, a new exhibit at the Mesa College Art Gallery. And, San Diego's LGBTQ+ film festival FilmOut is back. -
This weekend in the arts: Multi-disciplinary art takes over Logan Heights; Kaori Fukuyama's starlings-inspired shadow sculptures; rugs tufted with trash; Tchaikovsky and more. -
KPBS Midday EditionA local author is out with the second book in her Gothic-inspired young adult fantasy series. Plus, a poetry collection about the Vietnamese-American experience. And finally, a look at the weekend arts calendar. -
This weekend in the arts: The Rosin Box Project's "Debuts" production, a play about motherhood, SummerFest's final weekend and the intersection of mental health and craft. -
The San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books is Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023 at the University of San Diego campus, with dozens of author panels, readings, children's activities and booksellers.
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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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