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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Influential is a KPBS music series in which we ask notable San Diego musicians to make us a playlist of songs that shaped them as individuals and artists. -
Cheech Marin's new Chicano art museum in Riverside opens with a major, three-decade retrospective of the surreal, mixed-media works of San Diego/Tijuana artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre. -
This weekend in the arts: San Diego Dance Theater's Live Arts Fest; SDMA+ San Diego Shakespeare Society; Roustabout's production of "Iron"; Gill Sotu leads a Juneteenth production at the Globe; Space 4 Art open studios; and Mainly Mozart. -
This weekend in the arts: Mainly Mozart's All-Star Orchestra Fest begins; two new Park Social installations; "PROUD+" at The Studio Door; "Cinderella" at Moonlight Amphitheatre; Erika Torri at the Athenaeum; The Inflorescence and Sunday Cruise at Public Square and more. -
We're listening to new or notable music from San Diego musicians Nonexistent Night, Tasha Smith Godinez, Cali the Dreamer and Steven Schick, and touring Americana singer Margo Cilker. -
This weekend in the arts: "Echoes of Africa" opens at the Central Library Gallery; three exhibitions open at MCASD downtown, including Carmen Argote; the Broadway touring production of "Hadestown"; Gustavo Romero plays (all the) Beethoven piano sonatas; and a Women in Jazz mini-fest.
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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.
- 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