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 Mexico-based artist opens a new exhibition, "New Man: A Woman's Gaze," at Bread and Salt on Saturday, Feb. 12, featuring textiles, fashion, sculptures … and lots of bejeweled phalluses. -
With Alice Childress' 1955 play "Trouble in Mind," The Old Globe brings questions and conflicts about diversity in the American theater to center stage. -
This weekend in the arts: "Memory Traces" at the La Jolla Historical Society, tap dance and piano at La Jolla Music Society, Evan Lopez at Mortis Studio, the Hausmann Quartet, "Selected Drawings" at City Gallery and "Life Sucks" at Cygnet Theatre. -
Five new productions on local stages this month: "On Her Shoulders We Stand" from TuYo Theatre, "Trouble in Mind" at The Old Globe, "Life Sucks" at Cygnet, "Desert Rock Garden" from New Village Arts and "Best Lesbian Erotica 1995" at Diversionary. -
We're listening to new music from Thee Sacred Souls, The Inflorescence, Keni Can Fly, Julia Sage and the Bad Hombres and Author & Punisher. -
Five notable works of art on view in the region in February: Melissa Walter at Cannon Gallery, Duke Windsor at Oceanside Museum of Art, Andrés Hernández at The Hill Street Country Club, Marie Watt at University of San Diego and Tatiana-Ortiz Rubio at City College Gallery.
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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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