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 YA fantasy novel by San Diego author Lizz Huerta builds a magical Mesoamerican-inspired world where a lineage of seers — women known as Dreamers — can see truth beyond reality. -
This weekend in the arts: "Sugar Houses," UCSD MFA Open Studios, Xavier Foley, "Reimagined: The Artist's Book," "Expressions of Black Joy and Unity," and "Something's Brewing: Tango and Tacos." -
El Sistema, Venezuela's impactful national music education program, brought together the San Diego Symphony's Rafael Payare and trumpeter Pacho Flores. Flores will join the Symphony for several upcoming concerts. -
In the arts this weekend: Minerva Cuevas at ICA North; "Occupy Thirdspace II" at SDPL; Camarada at UC San Diego's new Park & Market space; Rabbitlight at Radio Axiom; and New Village Arts' "Desert Rock Garden." -
The first retrospective of the legendary Nigerian artist — and the first time his work is shown in San Diego — will be on view at San Diego State University in an exhibition and program with playwright and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. -
This weekend in the arts: four exhibitions at Bread and Salt, theater at WorldBeat Cultural Center, San Diego Symphony, The Inflorescence, SDMA+ Shakespeare and a Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald tribute.
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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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