TRIBE ZION

May/June 13

FASHIONFLASHBACK

INSTA FASHION

ART OF VINTAGE

Editor-in-Chief Jarrin Stokes

FashionBrooke BezickRachel KrauseCaitlin HaveardTristan GuelpaLily ShrimpBrittany EllersChrista Morton Phong Dinh Chase Mitchem Winston Leech Kara Woodson Noel FontaineJaime SchusterJoshua River Chonchon KashungVictoria HendersonCarley Dean Bridgette Erin Ayers Ashley Herring

StylistBrittany Pires

PhotographersBlake JonesJesus NievesKaitlyn CarrollColette Bottiaux

Graphic DesignerJahleel Ordonez

JournalistJoshua De Leon

ArtGrace Chartier

Music ArtistsTribe Zion

Hair/Makeup Crayton RonsoAnna MohrbacherSarah PeakeMaddMaxx Hair

Special Partners in Style Volume ONE Salon Long Hollow Studio

LETTER FROM THE EDITORWhat an exciting time for FIVE!

Several months ago, I helped to start a Fashion and Lifestyle magazine known as FIVE. I would have never guesssed that the response would be so great! Its awesome to have individuals that share a love for Pensacola’s fashion and entertainment scene as we do at FIVE. This issue we took time to look back and yesteryears and more importantly the fashion then and how we are still wearing it now.

Everywhere I turn these days, someone is telling me that print magazines are no longer relevant. I would be lying if I did not admit it stings a little. The next step for FIVE is print.

We are honored to share the work of so many committed and thoughtful people. Please visit the Facebook page to share your opinion of the issue. We appreciate your support and are so happy to have you as a reader of FIVE Magazine.

With warmest thanks,

Jarrin Stokes

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Jerry'sCajun

CafeSomething new is brewing at the corner of Main and Palafox! Jerry’s Cajun Cafe is now downtown! People are noticing and the reviews are great! A trailer court of restaurants with an outdoor seating area that locals are buzzing about. As we hear there are more spots to open as well. We will have to keep an eye out for what pops up next!

“Jerry’s has a Roast Beef sandwich that is just over the top. The breads perfect, the dressing is perfect and the debris is outstanding!” Says one customer“ This is a nice spot to have lunch on a nice spring Florida day. (oh and they have strawberry Abita beer which is a plus) 3 stars for Jerry’s Cajun Cafe + 1 star for the location. Service was very nice and pleasant and after you place your order inside the restaurant, they bring it to you outside to your table. I will be back.” says another.

Locally owned, operated and delicious. business hours are Monday through Saturday from 10:30 a.m till 9:00 p.m. If you’ve been craving some jambalaya or shrimp po-boys’ stop on in and chat with Jerry! You won’t be disappointed.

It can be hard as an artist to remain confident in your work and it’s easy to get discouraged. Having a great support system of friends, family, and other artists helps me tremendously to stay focused on my goals. Whenever I feel like I’m lacking motivation, I like to look up some of my favorite artists’ works.

ART OF VINTAGE My name is Grace Chartier and I’m an artist studying at the University of West Florida here in Pensacola. I’ve been interested in art for as long as I can remember. When I was a little girl I would spend hours drawing and getting lost a world I created on paper. However, I didn’t seriously consider making art a career until high school. Since then I’ve been working to develop my skills and creative voice.

Looking at some of the artists that came before me makes me feel like I have a place in a larger conversation. I want to make art that makes people feel something, what that is is up to them. If I can stir up some kind of emotion (even a negative emotion), I know I’ve done my job right.

Tribe Zion

We decided Tribe’s primary motivation is the love of making music. By combining the genres we all enjoy, we create and present a new and exciting style of music. The lyrics of our new single “Without Music” are line after line of how important music is in our lives. Also, we have lost three founding members in the last four years, so it is our mission to keep their songs and rhythms alive. Personally, what motivates me is “the dream.” As a child, growing up in the lower middle class swamps and the impoverished inner-city ghettos it was all about getting out and seeing this beautiful country! Trying every instrument as a child, determined to master one, I found I was most at home with singing and writing lyrics.

I never dreamt I would get paid, travel, tour, record, or even have a horn section! I just wanted to eventually live in the mountains and live on the beach at some point in my life. Music has taken me all over the country. We started Tribe Zion in Boulder, Colorado and ended up in Pensacola Beach, Florida. I am so blessed that not only “the dream” came true, we have already exceeded the expectations I had for this band. This style of mixing reggae, rock, and hip hop with an 8 piece band with horns and such talented artist is exactly the sound I was searching for. Lastly, my family is my motivation. I must show them that my years with them and years away from them were not wasted. Music, love, dreams, family, and friends are my motivation.

STRFKRThis town has a shortage of viable, nationally-known acts stopping in during a tour.

Droves of the starved showed up to the Vinyl Music Hall on Sunday, March 10 and waited in lines that extended from the front door to the entrance of Play. Starfucker, (or if you please, STRFKR) was on the bill that night and supporting them was San Francisco-based band Blackbird Blackbird.

The doors were supposed to open at 7:30 but didn’t start until about 30 minutes later. One by one, each person went inside like moths toward some soft incandescence. Once most everyone piled inside the modest soundspace, another long wait ensued. The murmurs of colliding conversation swirled around the room and turned to frustration as the show didn’t start for another 30, 45 minutes.

The voices of the disgruntled instantly turned to cheering jubilee, then nothing once Blackbird Blackbird took stage. Think of a conflation of Wolf Parade, Zammuto, and The Velvet Teen and there you have Blackbird Blackbird. The band had a consistently fluid ebb and flow of dance rhythms and noise-pop and bludgeoned the crowd with a continuous groove. Head-nodders and outright groovemeisters alike were caught in the gulf-like current of basslines and kick-snare-kick. Blackbird Blackbird was the perfect introduction to what the rest of the evening possessed.

Pensacola is Hungry.

By: Joshua De Leon

STRFKR

A small break.

STRFKR came out and spared no shred of energy, no fan-favorite. Their set was a sonic and visual bombardment that bounced off of the air, igniting the particles. The pulsating colors of LED backdrop cast the band members in a roseate air. The bass penetrated all in a perpetual thump-thump-thump and razor-sharp guitar licks sliced and swept through the walls it seemed. To what end will the night see? None could guess. It came as a surprise that the band played a multi-tune encore.

During the entire show, the crowd swayed and sweated and communed among itself for a show like this is an extreme rarity. It ’s a wonder that many think that the event was ill-promoted. STRFKR fan Alicia Taylor chimed in on the Pensacola and Vinyl’s lack of solid acts and the promoters poor treatment of getting the word out.

When asked how she heard about the show, Taylor stated the she “heard from friends” three weeks prior to the show.

“I’m surprised that they (Vinyl Music Hall) had a band like Starfucker coming here,” said Taylor. “They never have anybody good. It ’s very rare.”

Not only do some people think there’s a lack of “anybody good,” but there was also the indication of little to no real promotion. Which is, usually, not on the venue’s shoulders as a person or group separate from the venue is in charge of a show’s marketing. Granted, that may be true, one could argue that the venue should push events it hosts as it does mean money made in tickets, drinks, etc.

Although she didn’t come right out and say it, but I’m sure Taylor and others like her that were at the STRFKR would place a challenge on venues like Vinyl Music Hall to have more talented, notable bands to grace the area with their musical presents.