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A large overhaul of the busy intersection involving Congress, High and Free streets is planned for Portland which should improve pedestrian safety.

If you are walking near Portland's beautiful Eastern Prom anytime soon, be ready to ROCK. Hella Rocks that is. Hella Rocks a super-cool rock garden that is brand new to the Prom. The folks at USM are behind this cool new art installation.

The box was covered in feathers and the word "BALM" was spraypainted on the nearby sidewalk.

Want to try it for yourself? You can!

Reason #4298 that we love Portland? Amazing public art. And we can thank the folks at Creative Portland for a new public art initiative for three Bus Stop Shelters. The art celebrates Portland's racially diverse community and two of the three shelters are done by immigrant artists. The bus shelter art installation is funded in part by a $25,000 matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts as part of the NEA’s "Our Town" initiative.

It's more than just concerts and business meetings that have gone virtual with the pandemic. Art exhibits have also gone virtual too! Sure, you can check out a virtual exhibit at the Lourve in Paris but we found a great one that has just started right here in Maine and is being put on by Creative Portland under the leadership of Dinah Minot. It's called "2020 Vision: Past, Present & Future" and it's very Maine and very cool

A trio of artists create a stunning mural of George Floyd displayed on the wall of Aura in downtown Portland

You can pretty much see anything in Portland's Old Port, including some hanging art of a SpongeBob SquarePants character on Monday

Any Deadpool fan will have a large smile come across their face when you see this sick custom art spotted on a car in Maine

Woah! What am I looking at?! This piece of art is called, "Domestikator". How can a few cubes seem so indecent?

Looking to add some major swagger to your Halloween costume? This amazing hat will add that somethin' somethin' that your costume needs. Joselyn Walsh from Gardiner has an Etsy store called Bluemoose. Check out her gorgeous Day of the Dead decor...

And we didn't think Portland, Maine could get any cooler....or funkier...or more creative.

Portland has a well known reputation for amazing restaurants, bars and shops. But if you look a little harder, you'll find that Portland also offers some very unique places, including the International Cryptozoology Museum. Yes, you read that right...

Scott Wade likes to put the dirty pictures he creates up on the internet! Not THAT kind of dirty, THIS kind of dirty! Scott grew up in a dusty part of Texas where he first started drawing on dirty car windows and hatch backs. It grew into something pretty amazing, he works with ad agencies, and PR firms on campaigns and he also presents his work all over at art festivals, schools and art shows...