Max Alexander, chair of the Asheville Civic Center Commission for nearly three years, has voluntarily turned the commission reins over to John Broadbooks, former vice chair. Alexander will continue to serve as a commission member.
As he pledged to do in an e-mail dispatch last Friday, Asheville City Council member Carl Mumpower made an appearance at the Ratdog/Bob Weir concert at the Civic Center’s Thomas Wolfe Auditorium that evening. He reported afterwards that the auditorium “smelled like an Amsterdam hash bar.”