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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KPBS Midday EditionTwitchCon is happening in San Diego this weekend. Plus, we check out the Filipino film fest and our weekend preview in the arts. -
This weekend in the arts in San Diego: Art and disability at MCASD; Grammy-winning jazz at CCAE; World Design Experience at San Diego Design Week; Vanessa Rishel at Hill Street Country Club; Dracula on stage; Adams Avenue Street Fest and more. -
This weekend in the arts: Baby Bushka's farewell; dance, storytelling, music and art at ENVZN24; Christian Garcia-Olivo "Interlaced"; 'Jersey Boys'; Roman de Salvo; Hausmann Quartet; "Blue Gold: The Art and Science of Indigo"; INSITE_LAB; plus Nnamdi, Charlie Porter Quartet and more live music picks. -
Our top picks for classical and jazz music in San Diego this season: Samara Joy; a binational jazz fest; legendary French band Cortex; folk-inspired compositions with the La Jolla Symphony; and contemporary, experimental composer Sarah Hennies. -
Tijuana-based dancer, choreographer and educator Pamela Macías is co-director of ConnectArte, and the company is choreographing a piece for San Diego Dance Theater's annual Trolley Dances program. -
An inventive San Diego composer was tasked with creating the first piece of music to be performed in the San Diego Symphony's reopened indoor concert hall. Texu Kim's whimsical, folklore-informed "Welcome Home!!" is a study of what it means to come home.
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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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