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 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 -
KPBS Midday EditionSan Diego Art Institute in Balboa Park and Lux Art Institute in Encinitas will become the ICA San Diego, opening this fall with site-responsive work by Mexican artist Gabriel Rico. -
KPBS Midday EditionOur weekend arts picks: City Ballet, Philipp Scholz Rittermann, Art of Elan in the sculpture garden, Alfredo Jaar, a dance film reflection on a year of closures and the acoustic rock of Grampadrew.
![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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The sudden pullback of NEA funding — after money was already spent — is shaking confidence across San Diego's dance world and forcing organizations to rethink programming. -
Our top picks for book events to check out this season: Fantasy, found family and queer joy; the life of Kenny G; Pulitzer Prize-winner Viet Thanh Nguyen; the return of a beloved book festival; and a queer rom-com debut. -
Locally born productions shine at this year's Tony nominations. Plus, two Broadway shows celebrating the origins of sonic creativity — the musical “Hell’s Kitchen” fueled by Alicia Keys songs, and the play “Stereophonic” about a ’70s rock band at the edge of stardom — each earned a leading 13 Tony Award nominations Tuesday.
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