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 year and a half after the death of bandmate Nina Leilani Deering, "the Kate Bush experience of your dreams" re-forms and returns to live audiences at The Casbah and in Los Angeles this weekend. -
This weekend in the arts: "Masters of Photography" at SDMA, Mara de Luca and Lee Materazzi at Quint, Project [BLANK], "Shubbak," "1222 Oceanfront: A Black Family Christmas," and "Ebenezer Scrooge's Big San Diego Christmas Show." -
The world premiere production of playwright Kimber Lee's new play runs at The La Jolla Playhouse through Dec. 12, 2021, exploring two mysterious years of Vincent van Gogh’s life. -
This weekend in the arts: Lilian Martinez of BFGF at Swish Projects, Kimber Lee's Van Gogh story at The La Jolla Playhouse, Marina Zurkow at ICA North, soprano Michelle Bradley and an in-store "Choose Your Own Adventure" reading. -
The graphic novel, "we used to move through the city like doves in the wind" is about a couple separated by the COVID border closure. The Tijuana-based artist will open a solo exhibition at The Hill Street Country Club in early 2022. -
This weekend in the arts, dance that embraces loss, Edo de Waart conducts at The Shell, the 2021 Cannon Invitational exhibition and a one-night-only exhibition of contest-winning photography.
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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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