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: Art and music at OMA; Good Faith Summer School; dance at Art Produce; Lora Mathis at The Brown Building; "Black Panther" with the Symphony; and 'Leonard Bernstein's New York.' -
This weekend in the arts: Disco Riot's LGBTQ+ dance festival; "New Native Narratives" and Guillermo Echeveste at The Front; new Park Social activations; Gilbert Castellanos at The Shell; "Freestyle Love Supreme" at The Old Globe; and Pride performances at SDMA. -
San Diego rapper and hip-hop artist Ric Scales reflects on the songs that shaped him — with picks from Stevie Wonder, The Roots, Parliament, A Tribe Called Quest and Nas. -
Influential is a KPBS music series in which we ask notable San Diego musicians to make us a playlist of songs that shaped them as individuals and artists. -
Cheech Marin's new Chicano art museum in Riverside opens with a major, three-decade retrospective of the surreal, mixed-media works of San Diego/Tijuana artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre. -
This weekend in the arts: San Diego Dance Theater's Live Arts Fest; SDMA+ San Diego Shakespeare Society; Roustabout's production of "Iron"; Gill Sotu leads a Juneteenth production at the Globe; Space 4 Art open studios; and Mainly Mozart.
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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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