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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We're listening to new music from San Diego locals Nite Lapse, Thee Sacred Souls and Julianna Zachariou, plus touring artists Silvana Estrada and Sudan Archives. -
This weekend in the arts: Carolina Caycedo at ICA San Diego North; Broadway's "The Lion King"; Tchaikovsky at The Shell; Gideon Sawyer and beck haberstroh at ICA San Diego Central; David White's Park Social project; and "Sunblock 5000" at Oolong Gallery. -
An exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego downtown features Carmen Argote's thoughtful, disruptive use of materials, chemistry and a walking-based process. -
This weekend in the arts: "The Pleasure Trials" at Moxie Theatre; Khalid Alkaaby at Sparks Gallery; the San Diego Union-Tribune Festival of Books; "The Planets" at SummerFest; Francis Blume at the Casbah; "Turning Tides" at BFree Studio and more. -
Local author Alana Quintana Albertson's latest book, "Ramón and Julieta," delves into gentrification and "gentefication" in local Mexican-American communities — in a Latinx retelling of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." -
This weekend in the arts: Zim's "116 Drawings of Ketanji Brown Jackson" at Art Produce; "A Weekend in Paris" at SummerFest; Adam Belt, Christopher Puzio and Chris Thorson at Quint; "Blue Period" at OnStage Playhouse; jazz at MAKE Projects; and Richard Ybarra at BFree Studio.
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KPBS would like to hear from you about your awareness and participation in cultural arts in the South Bay. -
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.
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