Jorge "Carving Knife" Mendez is the standing host of the weekly Monday Night Open Mics at the Venue and produces and hosts a monthly featured artist's show called Feature Fridays. He started writing poetry as a child, later putting the skill he gained as a page writer into Hip-Hop format, releasing 3 independent albums on UKNODACREW Productions. In March 2016 Jorge published a book of his works titled Keys & Crowbars with San Francisco Bay Press.