Issue No. 7: QUAR + TIME Now available online!
Our first digital issue is designed to print-at-home so that you may display the zine in tiles, unbound, on your stay-at-home wall.
FWS #2: DUM DUM takes the L.A. River with “Grow Your Words”
Thursday, June 14, 2012 For the second installment of DUM DUM Zine's "Tour of L.A." free literary workshopping, Grow Your Words was the most free-form of them all. We met by the L.A. River on a sunny Saturday afternoon and began to smear patches of moss in the shape of sentences--a veritable performance of plant graffiti....
MOBIUS:
a written and visual collaboration
The following poem by Taleen Kalenderian consists of interlaced circular sentences taking inspiration from John Barth's "Frame Tale." Illustrator John McCormick accompanies the piece with his line drawings.
LUNA IS HONEY vs. Smashing Pumpkins: DUM DUM’s group review-interview
Fresh out of their home studio, L.A.'s own Luna is Honey is debuting their spankin' new EP, Coolbreeze, on cassette at Home Room tonight. You might remember the band from DUM DUM's Issue No. 1 launch party, DEAD SUMMER.
WaxPhil L.A. #13: Jacknife Records and Tapes, Diga Rhythm Band’s Diga Christina Gubala
"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s monthly column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
FREE/WRITE/SHOP
at Home Room 101
Want to take a writing workshop, but can't dish out the 500 clams? Into experimental writing? Need a prompt to get started? Just plain tired of lonely writing nights? Join us this Wednesday at Home Room 101.
DUM DUM Serials: “DOWN” by Jessica Garrison
DUM DUM would like to introduce Jessica Garrison as the first writer we've invited to participate in our spankin' new online serials. Each month, we'll introduce a new short story by Garrison, serializing short works from her $1 Books series.
WaxPhil (TX!) #12: End of an Ear in Austin, Steven Halpern and Dallas Smith’s 1984: Newsound Christina Gubala
"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s monthly column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
April's special installment brings you our SXSW edition, featuring End of An Ear Records in Austin.
A Big Day for Small Press
–Saturday, March 24 at USC
Hot off the heels of L.A. Zine Fest, USC's Roski School presents a second installment of Shelf-Life 2: A Big Day for Small Press. RSVP to the free event here.
STANDING IN LINE: Outside the Edison Travis Barnes
Standing in line is an unpleasant reality of going out anywhere in L.A. We don't dwell on it, but we'll spend hours standing around on the street in our hoochie-best waiting for some chump to give us permission to enter.
Opening this weekend–DUM DUM at EDICOLA newsstand kiosk in SF
–DUM DUM at EDICOLA newsstand kiosk in SF
Starting this weekend, the talented folks over at Colpa Press will be selling books, posters, tapes, and all things printed matter at a newsstand kiosk on the corner of Market and 6th St in San Francisco. DUM DUM Issue No. 1 is going for $5, and No. 2 for $10 (a hella deal)! ...
WaxPhil L.A. #11: Rockaway Records, Vic Chesnutt’s Little Christina Gubala
"Waxing Philosophical, L.A.” is DUM DUM’s biweekly Tuesday column written by Christina Gubala, co-founder of L.A.’s premier cassette-tape label, Complicated Dance Steps. A die-hard vinyl collector, you can find her spinning records at local bars near you.
L.A. ZINE FEST @The Last Bookstore this Sunday! Taleen Kalenderian
Here at DUM DUM, we've been busy folding and stapling all week to gear up for the first time L.A.'s independent publishing community has gotten together in 10 years. That's right--10 years! It's all coming together this Sunday, February 19th from 11am-5pm at L.A. ZINE FEST.