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 the arts: "Pop Smoke" at OMA; "Balanchine to Martins," Cate Kennan at the Brown Building; "The Nutcracker" previews; "Hamilton"; plus Barrio Art Crawl and Marisol Rendón at Bread and Salt. -
Hugo Crosthwaite's stop-motion animation portrait of Dr. Anthony Fauci will be installed in the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery. -
This weekend in the arts: San Diego Opera's "El último sueño de Frida y Diego"; "Up Close and Personal" at San Diego Dance Theater; Bread and Puppet Theater comes to North Park; "Portraits from the Anthropocene at WE Gallery"; Roberto Salas at Bonita Museum and the "Welcome tu Las Californias" music festival in Baja. -
Must-see visual art exhibitions in San Diego right now: Lisa Ross at SDMA; Tatiana Ortiz-Rubio at the Athenaeum; Francisco Eme at Best Practice; "Piñatas: The High Art of Celebration" at the Mingei; and "Script/Rescript" at SDSU Art Gallery. -
This weekend in the arts: a Haunted House at Bread and Salt, The Old Globe's AXIS Day of the Dead; "Murder Ballads"; "Noche Familiar" at The Shell; a silent movie and ofrendas and altars across the region. -
Justin Sterling's installation at San Diego Museum of Art explores bad faith practices, whether in policing, economics, legislation or interpersonal connections. By throwing rocks through windows then reassembling them as stained glass, Sterling asks: is this healed?
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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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