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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Workers and the New Children's Museum agree on historic first contract despite pandemic closures and layoffs. -
KPBS Midday EditionOur weekend arts picks include SDMA's Young Art exhibition, a virtual piano concert, Coronado Playhouse's latest production, The Black Iris Project, 'Contralto' and 'A Shimmer of Strings.' -
The San Diego-born founder of the Black Iris Project wrote "Wild" to explore imagination, racism and youth incarceration. It screens on demand through April 4. -
![Composer Sarah Hennies' 2017 audio-visual work "Contralto" will be presented in a livestream by Project [BLANK] on Friday Mar. 26 and Sunday Mar. 28, 2021.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/f1fbcae/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1114+0+193/resize/280x156!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fimg%2Fphotos%2F2021%2F03%2F23%2Fsarah-hennies-Photo-by-Mara-Baldwin-web.jpg)
"This idea of the so-called female voice does not exist. A female voice is the voice of a person who is female," said Sarah Hennies, composer of "Contralto." -
KPBS Midday EditionThis weekend in the arts: Cauleen Smith, outdoor jazz at Queen Bee's, a year of virtual civic organ concerts, Best Practice and an AjA Project panel. -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego Museum of Art, The Front Arte & Cultura, The Old Globe and The Casbah weigh in on running an arts organization during the pandemic, and the reality of reopening
![Composer Sarah Hennies' 2017 audio-visual work "Contralto" will be presented in a livestream by Project [BLANK] on Friday Mar. 26 and Sunday Mar. 28, 2021.](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/05971c8/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2000x1114+0+193/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fimg%2Fphotos%2F2021%2F03%2F23%2Fsarah-hennies-Photo-by-Mara-Baldwin-web.jpg)
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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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