An anonymous artist who goes by the alias “Buffalo Pothole Bandit” has come to town to save us from popped tires and ugly streets. The Bandit filled 30 potholes around town in mid-October, including 20 sidewalk cracks and potholes on Southeast Stark Street between 78th and 80th Avenues in Montavilla.

But the Bandit—who would not provide any information about their identity, other than that they live in Buffalo, N.Y., and has no formal art background—isn’t just pouring some quick-dry asphalt mix into the potholes: they make elaborate and whimsical mosaics in the cement. In Portland, they made an airport carpet-themed design, as well as a tiny milk-and-cookies pothole fix and a ladybug wearing a crown. They also created a nice blue swirl in Southeast Portland’s Brooklyn neighborhood, and a

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