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: 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. -
A new album from influential local jazz trumpeter Gilbert Castellanos is about celebrating the tunes that got him through a rough few years — and the musicians and students that surround him. -
The KPBS One Book, One San Diego selection for teens is Trung Le Nguyen's graphic novel, "The Magic Fish." It's a powerful book that weaves traditional fairy tales with the story of a Vietnamese American teenager who struggles to find the words to tell his mother who he is. -
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This weekend in the arts: Experimental electronic music at Bread and Salt; Shellie Zhang at ICA San Diego North; "Modern Women" at San Diego Museum of Art; the San Diego Symphony's "Noel Noel"; "The Nutcracker" in Balboa Park; and The New Pornographers at the Belly Up. -
A new book by native San Diegan Luke Dumas puts us in the mind of a convicted murderer — a young postgrad in Scotland who claims he worked at the behest of the devil. -
KPBS Midday EditionChristopher McDougall and Eric Orton's new sequel to the pivotal 2009 running book "Born to Run" takes a step-by-step, training guide-style approach to transforming running form.
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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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