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: Cecilia Wong Kaiser at BFree; Ana Carrete at Lang Books; Ephrat Asherie Dance at ArtPower; Tasha Smith Godinez album release; 'Into the Woods' at Ovation Theatre; Tom Driscoll at SIP; 'The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci' at The Old Globe and Lunar New Year events across the county. -
"I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself" is San Diego-based writer Marisa Crane's debut novel. It's set in a world where so-called wrongdoers are assigned an extra shadow. -
This weekend in the arts: Ethan Chan at OMA; Shellie Zhang and Lei Liang in conversation (and performance) at ICA North; Eva Struble at the Athenaeum; "Blues in the Night" at North Coast Repertory Theatre; Edgar Allan Poe at Junior Theatre; Hyeyeon Kim at Best Practice and more. -
Artist, educator and printmaker Sibyl Rubottom will retire from her role at the Athenaeum Art Center's Print Studio. To celebrate Rubottom's long career, a survey of the last six decades of her work is currently on view. -
This weekend in the arts: a Project [BLANK] group show; "Arrested Motion" at Thumbprint; "Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of the Temptations" at the Civic Theatre; experimental music and literature at Witches' Tower in Presidio Park; Schubert's "Winterreise" at Le Salon de Musiques; and the soundON festival at the Athenaeum. -
This weekend in the arts: immersive music and art, contemporary dance for the Jewish holidays, museum staff get artsy, an M-Theory pop-up show, and the art of the sewing machine.
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The sudden pullback of NEA funding — after money was already spent — is shaking confidence across San Diego's dance world and forcing organizations to rethink programming. -
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.
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