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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A new Broadway-bound musical at The Old Globe is a Nell Benjamin adaptation of a beloved 1995 Hindi film, known as "DDLJ." Mumbai-based composers and musicians Vishal and Sheykhar wrote new music for the adaptation. -
This weekend in the arts: New exhibitions at Bread and Salt, Best Practice, Athenaeum Art Center, ICA San Diego North, Cannon Art Gallery, and the Athenaeum Music & Arts Library; three stages of music at the San Diego Festival of Arts; and "Come Fall in Love" at The Old Globe. -
This weekend in the arts: New contemporary dance from The Rosin Box Project; "Cradle" from Visionary Dance Theatre; "Ragtime" at Moonlight Amphitheatre; "Fandango for Butterflies (And Coyotes)" at La Jolla Playhouse; May-ling Martinez at Quint ONE; and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis at The Shell. -
We're listening to new music from San Diego locals Nite Lapse, Thee Sacred Souls and Julianna Zachariou, plus touring artists Silvana Estrada and Sudan Archives. -
This weekend in the arts: Carolina Caycedo at ICA San Diego North; Broadway's "The Lion King"; Tchaikovsky at The Shell; Gideon Sawyer and beck haberstroh at ICA San Diego Central; David White's Park Social project; and "Sunblock 5000" at Oolong Gallery. -
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego downtown features Carmen Argote's thoughtful, disruptive use of materials, chemistry and a walking-based process.
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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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