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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KPBS Midday EditionOur weekend arts picks: Malashock Dance, a new Indian film, UCSD MFA closing reception, an AAPI group show, Project [BLANK] and La Jolla Playhouse's POP Tour. -
Teros Gallery and Burn All Books team up for a new group exhibition of AAPI artworks at Good Faith Gallery, inspired by the misunderstood monster and "Gidra," a radical zine founded in 1969. -
KPBS Midday EditionLa Mesa author's debut novel envisions a post-catastrophic world where human memories are erased every four years to preserve peace — but what about love? -
Arts worker Andrea Chandler wants to map — and change — whose voices are heard, valued and funded. And one year after the murder of George Floyd, she is holding arts orgs to their promises. -
KPBS Midday EditionOur weekend arts picks include outdoor performances by San Diego Dance Theater and SD Master Chorale, Lux Art Institute's regional artist, The Shell and Coronado Playhouse -
Somebody beam us to Venice. Locals Pinar Yoldas and Daniel López-Pérez use immersive sculptural structures to answer the international biennale's curatorial question: "How will we live together?"
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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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