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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"Monumental Interventions" is a series of short videos and part of Evan Apodaca's larger body of work, "Secret City." The videos can be seen in a week-long online exhibition. -
New works of art to catch this month in San Diego by Christina Kim, El Anatsui, Ivonne Garcia, Chitra Gopalakrishnan with The House of Resilience, and youth at MOPA. -
KPBS Midday EditionThis weekend in the arts: Dance, art and music in the garden, a three-day outdoor music festival, art from plastics in the ocean, and live graffiti with a silent disco. -
KPBS Midday EditionIn 1993, the county of San Diego eliminated their county arts commission. Thanks to the work of advocates and a unanimous vote from the County Board of Supervisors, it's on its way back. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe KPBS Summer Music Series continues with DJ Artistic, considered an architect of local hip-hop scene who curates and produces events, makes space for emerging artists and is a four-time SDMA winner -
This weekend in the arts: Yo-Yo Ma comes to the Shell, TwainFest in Old Town, a pop-up exhibition at The Hill Street Country Club, a virtual book fest and The Rosin Box's contemporary ballet.
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KPBS would like to hear from you about your awareness and participation in cultural arts in the South Bay. -
Here is a list of some of KPBS' picks to ring in the Year of the Rabbit and Cat in San Diego County. -
A new outdoor exhibition of photography, ephemera, video and more explores the role of the Freedom Riders in their 1961 protests.
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