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 Symphony presents guest conductor Eun Sun Kim with a new composition by a contemporary composer alongside works by Sibelius and Rachmaninoff. -
KPBS Midday Edition'Visceral Infinities,' Alofa La'Nique Gould and the Brentano Quartet. Plus, 'Abstract Revolution' closes soon at San Diego Museum of Art -
In "This Is The End Of Something But It's Not The End Of You," former San Diegan Adam Gnade explores loss, vice, love and home. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe San Diego Ballet, Fear No Art at the Central Library, Golden Howl pens a score for 'Hurricane Diane' and The Frights -
La Otra Esquina gallery to open at Telefónica Gastropark with work from Teros artists Carmela Prudencio, Aaron Glasson, Aaron Troyer, Jonny Alexander and local risograph press Burn All Books -
Panca's 'I Am the Architect of My Own Misfortune' is a building-wide solo exhibition opening Saturday at Bread & Salt
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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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