By John C. Nelson, July 17, 2024.Jim Lloyd hails from four generations of family musicians. He was raised primarily in Virginia and West Virginia. He recalls first picking up a guitar when he was about five years old. “I would sneak into my grandmother’s bedroom and...

By John C. NelsonJuly 8, 2024.     Rudy Mendez’s career as an artist had an inauspicious beginning. Thirty years ago he received a citation for spray painting graffiti on a concrete slab of the Los Angeles County flood control aqueduct system. He was a typical...