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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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. -
This weekend in the arts: Mainly Mozart's All-Star Orchestra Fest begins; two new Park Social installations; "PROUD+" at The Studio Door; "Cinderella" at Moonlight Amphitheatre; Erika Torri at the Athenaeum; The Inflorescence and Sunday Cruise at Public Square and more. -
We're listening to new or notable music from San Diego musicians Nonexistent Night, Tasha Smith Godinez, Cali the Dreamer and Steven Schick, and touring Americana singer Margo Cilker.
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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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