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The Low/No-Budget Guide To Portland, Oregon

The Zinester’s Guide is a locally-produced travel guide for visitors and residents alike, focusing on low-to-no cost things to do and places to go to in the Rose City, and is built on contributions from people in the community.

Contribute!

Hey, we’ve gotten nary a trickle of new contributions to this guide in the past few months. Now is the time to step up! We will be working on a new edition in the ‘08, and we want it to be fresher-than-fresh! Some of the listings on here are starting to mold, and on top of that, there’s a bunch of new places that have opened up! Head on over to the Submit page to add your own listing. And you can also write a listing about a place that’s already up!

News!

*A new review! Andrew Coltrin of the Look For Signage collective writes up a sweet review for Tucson based Bookmans.
* Read an interview with editor Shawn Granton on the Powells blog! The Zinester’s Guide was the number one seller at Powells in January!
* Here’s a review from the February 8, 2007 edition of the Portland Mercury
* And…an article in the Oregonian, Portland’s daily newspaper, about the “Indie Rock Block” (aka “The Wedge”, the block between SW Oak, 9th, 10th, and W Burnside) featuring the Zinester’s Guide and editor Shawn Granton

Updated 8 November 2007

Recent Articles

Sweatpea
Southeast / Bakeries

After years of being only able to get these delicious baked goods through grocery stores, Sweatpea Bakery has opened a location in the vegan mini-mall! This is the place to ...

A Better Cycle
Southeast / Bicycling in Portland

A Better Cycle is a worker owned and collectively run used bicycle shop in sunny southeast Portland, OR; Offering full repair services, custom builds, wheel building, and internal gear servicing. ...

Waffle Window
Southeast / Restaurants

The Bread and Ink Cafe is known for good breakfasts that are not cheap (hence the reason why it will never be listed in the Zinester's Guide). But like the ...

Recent Comments

Keith, you really should post this over at the Zoobomb forum:
http://zoobomb.net/forum/

the editor. / Zoobomb

Dear Zoobombers: I saw you at Slaughterama--congratulations on your victory--and now I'm coming to Portland for the Towards Carfree Cities Conference in June. If you read this note, please shoot ...

Keith Sorensen / Zoobomb

The Twilight Rummage Sale will be Saturday, April 26th, starting at 4:00 pm and run till 8:00. thanks, dawn

Dawn / Twilight Rummage Sale at The Eagles Lodge

Finnegan's Toys and Little Finnegan's (annex). Finnegan's is awesome! Full of cool toys like Playmobil, Dinosaurs, Wind-ups, Dolls etc. Little Finnegan's is around the corner on 10th and has stuff ...

Derek / Finnegan's Toys