![]() ![]() They broke the glass on the front door, terrorized the staff, and eventually became brazen enough to smash out a large section plate glass on the store’s west-facing facade. Around then - just this past summer - vandals began targeting the store. In addition to the store’s acute challenges with loss prevention, Megyesi suffered a near-fatal heart attack several months ago, which shouldered Norris with 100% of the administrative burden. Mutiny is no exception, having suffered loss of revenue by having to briefly curtail the business alongside everyone else in the neighborhood. Mutiny Information Cafe has been brutalized by circumstances over the last couple of years.Įmerging from the aftermath of Covid was tough for everyone, as any small business owner who was lucky enough to survive 2020/2021 will tell you. ![]() There are too many rich people who don’t give a shit,” he says. ![]() “Crime is terrible around here because of the extreme economic disparity at work. “They’ll swipe anything that is not nailed down,” Norris explains. While the eclectic personality of Mutiny attracts earnest spenders looking for caffeinated drinks, novels, vinyl records, and comic books - it also attracts folks who are looking to get even with their misfortunate lot in life by stealing anything they can get their hands on. Such high-volume foot traffic usually bodes well for a retail business, but there’s trouble in paradise. There are jugglers, skateboarders, survey takers, families with baby strollers, panhandlers, stumblers, mumblers, vapers, smokers, tweakers, buskers, and much more. It is a hodgepodge of characters, personalities, and temperaments indicative of a district buzzing with artists, writers, and yuppies, yet simultaneously gripped by addiction, crime, and fear. Meanwhile, the two-way conveyor belt churning past the store’s front windows presents the usual menagerie of South Broadway human fare. ![]() Mutiny Information Cafe is a hub for creatives of all types and a top retail destination for records, coffee, novels, comic books, and more. If you have seen an art opening, comedy show, or live music performance in Denver anytime in the last nine years, chances are that media had origins of some sort within the walls of Mutiny. The place is a hub for writers, artists, musicians, comedians, magicians, and anyone with a creative streak. Humility, respect, openness, equality, diversity, unity, strength, and self-reliance practically ooze from every shelf, nook, and cranny of the place. Regardless, the personality and mojo spilling forth from Mutiny’s front door bears the unmistakable essence of everything good about the independent business culture of Denver. As anyone with a pulse knows, “vibrant” means lots of pedestrian traffic and in today’s Denver - where there are people there is trouble. Mutiny occupies what is unequivocally the most vibrant stretch of South Broadway, perched as the flagship business on the southeast corner of Ellsworth. I think they are supposed to be called “modern activists”… LOL!! The only change that will be activated is when they end up relocating out of Broadway (yay!), since the economy is inevitably going to drain the trust funds they depend on.Mutiny partners Jim Norris and Matt Megyesi are beloved stalwarts of the Denver indie arts scene. Given the style of the place is passé, which would be okay if the staff were not predictably pretentious, even openly laughing about having customers wait to have them finish their conversations about hating the patriarchy until they feel like giving you some kind of annoyed attention,…as the line just kept getting longer… 'activism' in the works., meh, it's not like I spend money there any more, no way is that gonna happen, lol! -Yet, I have been here before, off an on, in the past six years, and my point is about the over all experience, as these past couple years is like watching one of the coolest places in Denver turn into a quagmire of apathy, like being consistently dismissive, and curt towards certain customers is some form of empowerment, in a shop designed to give you the impression that all the dust, and the smug superficial “in the know” staff are intentional, like they are trying to fit an image, which consequently involves a transparent, and dim-witted lackadaisical take on their customers. ![]()
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