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.
-
This weekend in the arts: Graffiti art at the Athenaeum Art Center; Barrio Art Crawl; Adia Victoria at The Casbah; Little Italy ArtWalk Summer Series; Katherine Brannock at Thumbprint; and Freestyle Love Supreme closes. -
Dr. James Daichendt discusses the significance street art and the controversy surrounding OG Slick's "Three Slick Pigs." -
The AjA Project program will ultimately be taught by peer educators in the San Diego Juvenile Court and Community Schools program, empowering young people to teach each other how to successfully reclaim technology. -
This weekend in the arts: Art and music at OMA; Good Faith Summer School; dance at Art Produce; Lora Mathis at The Brown Building; "Black Panther" with the Symphony; and 'Leonard Bernstein's New York.' -
This weekend in the arts: Disco Riot's LGBTQ+ dance festival; "New Native Narratives" and Guillermo Echeveste at The Front; new Park Social activations; Gilbert Castellanos at The Shell; "Freestyle Love Supreme" at The Old Globe; and Pride performances at SDMA. -
San Diego rapper and hip-hop artist Ric Scales reflects on the songs that shaped him — with picks from Stevie Wonder, The Roots, Parliament, A Tribe Called Quest and Nas.
-
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.
- Escondido Library’s temporary location at mall draws more families, teens
- Federal funding restrictions threaten San Diego’s harm reduction programs
- Lawson-Remer proposes plan to cover legal aid for San Diego’s unaccompanied migrant children
- Meet the Sacramento architect behind California’s new proposed congressional maps
- Glory, coca leaves and termites in Marisol Rendón's Timken exhibit