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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Our weekend arts picks: Trash Lamb Gallery, acoustic music along Adams Ave., "Bob Fosse's Dancin'," "Women in Jazz," high school orchestras at the Shell, "Les Paul through the Lens," and György Kurtág's "Kafka Fragments." -
For this year's Art Alive, San Diego Museum of Art asked local botanical artist Britton Neubacher to fill the museum's rotunda with her fascinating and sustainable moss installations — an exercise in organizing chaos. -
San Diego weekend arts events: 'Black Lady Showcase,' 'Rent,' last chance for Yolanda López and moreThis weekend in the arts: Black Artist Collective at The Old Globe; Yolanda López and Irma Sofia Poeter; "Mother of the Maid" at Moxie; Broadway San Diego presents "Rent"; Anya Gallaccio at Quint ONE; the Symphony; and Spellling at the Casbah. -
The annual awards ceremony is in its 31st year and aims to recognize achievements of local musicians. -
The contemporary dance company will show four new works of movement art in their spring showcase, featuring the choreography of Zaquia Mahler Salinas, Chelsea Zeffiro, Marty Dorado and Anna Brown Massey. -
This weekend in the arts: Jamie Franks at ICE Gallery; Sons of Kemet and Melanie Charles at Belly Up; Hausmann Quartet performs Haydn's "Seven Last Words of Christ"; Melissa Chadburn in conversation with Jac Jemc; and the Globe celebrates Shakespeare's birthday.
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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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