DUM DUM Guest Editor: Projekt Katharine Takes Over
Sup Dum babes + welcome to June. I’ve been thinking about what knowledge I’m here to share with you as I take over the DUM airwaves. To engage you with a screen between us when I’m here to preach the opposite is—yes—ridiculous. In fact, it is the antithesis of what I am working towards. Writing...
JUNE TAKEOVER: DUM DUM’s Guest Editor, Projekt Katharine
Notice anything new on the homepage, Dummies? This month, DUM DUM Zine will be handing the reins over to guest editor Katharine Hargreaves: writer, designer, and social activist. You might recognize her name from the radical journal Whole Beast Rag...
Grand Park’s DOWNTOWN BOOKFEST in photos
Grand Park's DOWNTOWN BOOKFEST went down this Saturday with partners 826 LA, the Central Library, and Ryman Arts setting up shop throughout Grand Park's Performance Lawn all day long, while Writ Large and The Last Bookstore collaborated on a Pop-Up Bookstore featuring the best literature being put out by small presses today (cough cough: they...
Issue 4 Release Party: PHOTO RECAP!
DUM DUM Zine’s Issue 4 Release Party at The Last Bookstore brought Downtown to its knees! Bubbling minds and eager ears gathered inside one of L.A.’s most treasured spaces to hear readings from our brand-spanking-new issue, as well as the bodacious sounds of Alina Cutrono, TÜLIPS, and HOTT MT. We laughed, we shuddered, we danced,...
DUM DUM does MOCA: L.A. Art Book Fair 2014
We're headed to The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA again this year to bring you a sneak peak of Issue No. 4, "LOST & BOUND." Opening night is this Thursday, January 31st at 6pm, and your favorite Dummies will be tabling every day through Sunday. Stop by and say hi! You can RSVP here.
BOILING BAT BLOOD: A DUM Halloween Reading
Boiling Bat Blood was this years' happening Halloween lit gathering and in case you missed it, here's a recap. In celebration of the dead, and with the help of our friends, we lit up the night with some chilling harvest-themed readings and music at Stories Books & Cafe in Echo Park.
Announcing our 4th Issue: Lost & BOUND
As a prelude to our fourth issue, the staff at DUM DUM Zine got our hands on some boxes of "lost" books from The Last Bookstore Downtown and are giving them a chance to continue telling their story (and making new ones) at Grand Park's Little Libraries. Issue 4 submissions will open October 14th....
Get WEIRD with theNewerYork this Saturday!
GET WEIRD with theNewerYork this Saturday, August 24th, 2013 at The Lyric Hyperion Theater and Cafe Los Angeles. Carnival time is at 7:45pm, and the show starts at 9pm.
The Joy Division Tumblr shirt is back!
Rumor has it, Peter Saville himself ordered a bunch. You can order them here.
It's great to have Adam JK in our DUM family. You'll remember him from the lit matchbooks he created for PUNKS & Scholars.
FREEWRITESHOP 2k13!
As you may have noticed, we've reinstated our yearly workshop series, Freewriteshop, as of this spring! Our first session took place this April at the site of The Old L.A. Zoo in Griffith Park. If you missed it, check out editor Liska Jacob's photo recap, and make sure to check back on the FWS...
A Farewell to PUNKS & Scholars
We stopped by The Pop-Hop a few weekends ago for the final celebration of our 3rd issue, PUNKS & Scholars.The very place our DUM box was screen printed, it was only appropriate to cycle back and bid the issue farewell with all our pals. Thank you so much to everybody who was present in...
PUNKS & Scholars: Official Party Photos
Oh what a DUM night. Photos by AlextheBrown! For even more photos, check out L.A. Record's LIVE REVIEW, and Summer Fun Time Society Photo Booth Pix (by Christina "Yo Teach" Nersesian).