Sale items include over 20,000 kids books, recent bestsellers, musical scores, audiobooks, DVDs, and more. Hardback novels start at $2, and a lot of items start at a measly two bits!

About a million vendors (well a couple hundred) set up booths and tables, and sell everything from reversible hats to quirky t-shirts, hand made jewelry to stationery, and plenty of bad art.

Tammy Strobel’s blog, RowdyKittens, explores social change through simple living. If you’re curious about downscaling, tiny homes, decluttering, and carfree living, RowdyKittens is a great place to start your exploration.

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The rain finally arrived. As evidenced by the list below, however, there’s still a lot to do on a rainy Portland weekend in the Fall, and every one of the events featured below is either indoors or tent covered! Paddy’s Oysterfest Like oysters? Guinness? Paddy’s Oysterfest is this Saturday, October 17 from 11am to midnight [...]

The Wordstock Book Fair takes place this weekend at the Oregon Convention Center (777 NE MLK Jr) from 10am-6pm Saturday and Sunday, October 10-11. Other festival readings and workshops are ongoing, but good luck finding the information you need from the website, which just like last year, is thoroughly irritating (flash, awful navigation but at [...]

Get to Know Your Bike today at Portland State University‘s Smith Memorial Student Union (1825 SW Broadway) from 10am to 4pm. Get to Know Your Bike is a bicycle fair, a celebration of bicycle community and culture, sponsored by Portland State University. All bicyclist and the bicycle curious are invited. The fair boasts a Bike [...]

Tuesday night we made what has now become an annual pilgrimage to Chapman Elementary School in NW Portland to witness the spectacle of thousands of tiny birds swirling and diving and peppering the sky before shooting into a giant chimney on top of the school as the sun sets.

In addition to the Timbers away match (find out where to watch here) and the multitude of beer events (Concordia Cup, Bones and Brews, and Bailey’s Taproom Birthday) there are plenty of other festivities that warrant your attention this weekend. The Mount Tabor Park Centennial Celebration takes place this weekend, both Saturday, August 1st and [...]

Updates for 2010: July 16-18: Portland International Beerfest 2010 July 17: Woodstock Festival and Parade 2010 July 17: The Big Busk 2010 July 18: East Portland Sunday Parkways This weekend sports quite the line up. There’s a beer fest, of course – the Portland International Beer Festival, which runs all weekend (Friday 4pm-10pm, Saturday 12pm-10pm, [...]