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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This weekend in San Diego arts and culture: Site-specific dance along the trolley line; Kazim Ali and poets without borders; motel soap art; "Dragon Mama," Picasso-inspired music; hip-hop art and more. -
KPBS Midday EditionA San Diego professor's novel, "Cities of Women," explores the similarities and differences between medieval and present-day women. Plus, all you need to know about what to do in San Diego this weekend. -
Since her first public project with Target, Kaori Fukuyama has completed a handful of other public art projects, including the Southeastern Live Well Center, the Rolando Library, the Jacobs Medical Center and now, the San Diego International Airport. -
This weekend in the arts: Otherworldly sculptures, emerging artists, a public art legend, "whodunit" theater, jazz icons, letters to Shakespeare's Juliet and live music picks. -
KPBS Midday EditionA San Diego author offers simple and tasty recipes for people on-the-go. Plus, a new exhibit at the Mesa College Art Gallery. And, San Diego's LGBTQ+ film festival FilmOut is back. -
This weekend in the arts: Multi-disciplinary art takes over Logan Heights; Kaori Fukuyama's starlings-inspired shadow sculptures; rugs tufted with trash; Tchaikovsky and more.
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Here is a list of some of KPBS' picks to ring in the Year of the Rabbit and Cat in San Diego County. -
A new outdoor exhibition of photography, ephemera, video and more explores the role of the Freedom Riders in their 1961 protests. -
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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