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 2021 virtual GI Film Festival San Diego highlights stories of the female warrior experience in a six-day event, opening with "The Invisible Project" documentary about women veterans. -
This weekend in the arts: Four events in one at Bread and Salt, Bach Collegium online, a drive-thru steamroller printmaking exhibition, and Carrie Feller and D.WREX at Sycamore Den. -
Discover these five notable works of visual art in San Diego this month, from Sien Collective, Kaori Fukuyama, Amir H. Fallah, Annie Goldman and Chitra Gopalakrishnan. -
KPBS Midday EditionWe're listening to new music from San Diego's Vákoum, Kahlil Nash, Kori Gillis, Francisco Eme and The Strawberry Moons — plus a bonus show alert (!) for Carrie Feller and D.WREX. -
This weekend in the arts: A dance film commissioned by the La Jolla Playhouse, "The Barber of Seville" drive-in, virtual Mission Creek Festival and the Domestic Geographies open house -
Silent's new full-length album "Modern Hate" tackles the toxicity of hate in modern society with a powerful goth-punk beauty.
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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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