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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In a new solo exhibition, a San Diego artist envisions a portal that allows people to cross the border at will — exploring immigration and what it means to feel safe and sheltered. -
This weekend in the arts: experimental percussion, Tchaikovsky goes hip-hop, a new installation at Art Produce, a new film that's a love letter to Tijuana, and mathematical poetry at the Bonita Museum. -
The return of an audience favorite at Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater comes on the heels of pandemic-era Instagram teatimes with an eccentric, prolific artist — and his friend Henri. -
We're listening to new music from local acts Kocean, Steph Richards with Joshua White, 18scales, Plosivs and Valentine Byrne with Real J. Wallace. -
Notable artwork on view in town this month, featuring: Panca, Ellamarie and Jackson Woolley, Neil Kendricks, Ellis Duc Luu and the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indian Tribal Community with Hans Baumann -
This weekend in the arts: Saki and MartyO at OMA, SDMA+ the San Diego Shakespeare Society, Bach and Handel's earliest works, Little Dame's Halloween show at the Ken, and community ofrendas around the region.
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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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