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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Here are a few ideas for places to go in San Diego with your kids when you have to stay indoors. -
San Diego writer Jac Jemc's new novel, "Empty Theatre," explores the stranger-than-fiction lives and deaths of King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his cousin Empress Sisi of Austria. -
Author Anthony Doerr will appear at the Writer's Symposium by the Sea at Point Loma Nazarene University on Tuesday. Doerr's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "All the Light We Cannot See" is being adapted into a four-part Netflix series. His latest book, "Cloud Cuckoo Land," was a National Book Award finalist. -
Diversionary Theatre's production of Temi Wilkey's 2020 play follows an LGBTQ couple facing traditional Nigerian parents. -
Our arts picks this weekend include: Swish Projects at the New Children's Museum, San Diego Dance Theater's Live Arts Fest, "Black Voices, Black Writers" and more. -
"I hope this goes everywhere. And even more than Broadway, I hope this goes into high schools all over the country."
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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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