Adam Strange could be considered a rare vestige of what some longtime locals wistfully refer to as “Old Asheville” — the offbeat, creative culture that thrived downtown in the 1990s and early 2000s.

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The official photograph of the president’s second term has the gloss of his 1980s architecture, but its A.I.-like haze is ...