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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San Diego artist Amel Janae's solo exhibition, "Like Honey" is on view now at Swish Projects, is a study of obscurity. -
Jazz musician Louis Valenzuela supports local musicians — and audiences — by hosting weekly livestreams. -
A new fellowship brings three artists with different backgrounds together to explore the memories and archives of Japanese-American incarceration and other civil liberties violations -
This weekend in the arts, the experimental Vietnamese music of Vân-Ánh Võ, 1960's women's lithography, the Human Rights Watch Film Festival and the Met Opera's 'Ariadne Auf Naxos.' -
KPBS Midday EditionLoira Limbal's "Through the Night" documentary, part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival, spotlights the essential workers, mostly women of color who require 24-hour childcare centers — and the tireless childcare workers who support them. -
Tracks from Chauncey Maynor, Alan Lili, Sammy Bel Mar, The Elephants in the Room and a remembrance of Eléa Tenuta of Heavy Vegetable.
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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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