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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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. -
A new program from the Balboa Art Conservation Center and Centro Cultural de la Raza will explore representation, access and the necessary methods for preserving Chicano/a/x art. -
Greg Ginn was behind the groundbreaking SST Records and the band Black Flag. San Diego author Jim Ruland's new book chronicles the rise and fall of the label and the LA punk scene. -
"Niki de Saint Phalle in the 1960s" opens April 9 at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. -
Reopening after a four-year, $105 million renovation, MCASD's La Jolla campus has plenty of space for the institution's world-class collection.
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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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