They're also launching the aforementioned Mutiny Information Press. "You can get coffee, and if you're not into the first band, you're more likely to stick around, hang out out front, then come around for the second band, so people stick around longer." "Since then, we've moved stuff back where we're not making noise pollution for our neighbors, says Megyesi. At first, they had events in the front in the windows. "The all-ages thing is super important, so kids can come see something amazing," says Norris.Ī backlash to technology Mutiny has expanded its offerings, hosted concerts and promoted community.Īs Mutiny has grown, Megyesi and Norris have also redesigned it to meet the community's needs. We just wanted to take a little bit of time away from everybody and have a little party over here and show off some of the local talent that a lot of people wouldn't be able to see because they're off watching another show or another bar." We enjoy the fact that they're bringing music to the neighborhood and everything. "That's how I felt about Parley versus UMS. "When we first started the Parley, it reminded me of Monty Python's Flying Circus, when they all dress up as pirates and take over the other place," Megyesi says. Since 2014, they've also held the Mile High Parley, a free event during the annual Underground Music Showcase. The store also hosts comedy shows, monthly author meetings, magic shows, punk shows and artisan fairs. "Shop owners come into our store and have meetings with employees or vendors and they come here to meet and talk with people," Megyesi adds. "We have a vision of what the neighborhood should be." We've had copies of Allen Ginsberg poetry books signed by him."īut Mutiny has grown beyond a collection of books with coffee."We're a community-based business," says Norris. We have a copy of Junkie that's been autographed by William S. It's not just the comic books that have come through have been fantastic. "We had the first appearance of Wolverine come through. "We had Iron Man #2 come in here, we've got New Mutants #98, which is the first appearance of Deadpool," Megyesi explains.
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More than books Mutiny Information Cafe founders Jim Norris (right) and Matt Megyesi.Īt its heart, Mutiny is still a used bookstore that's seen some amazing things come into its collection. It took us the last 20 years of doing what we did just to end up where we are." Even then, I don't think we could dream as big as what it's turned out to be now. "When we were doing zines, we worked in coffee shops, the places you dropped zines at were coffee shops or record stores or bookstores. Still, "The zine thing is where it came out of," Norris says. They've incorporated those passions as well, expanding the store's comic book and record collections. Megyesi also works as a graphic designer. After that, they both went on to other careers: Norris worked in Denver's music scene and eventually became a co-owner of 3 Kings Tavern, a position he left. Soon Megyesi joined him hopping freight trains across the West. "He told me he hopped trains and I told him I'd love to do it, so he took me on. "I did it the first time right after I graduated college when I met a guy at a party," says Norris. They were also hobbyist hobos, taking part of a unique counterculture with its own language and art, to travel and visit friends via the forgotten America of the rails. The pair dreamed of someday owning a coffee shop or bookstore. "We were doing the zine, The, back then," Norris says.
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Norris and Megyesi's latest endeavor is Mutiny Information Press, which kicked off with their first book, Mutiny Info Reader, a collection of stories and poetry by local authors.īut the seeds for Mutiny were planted decades ago.
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Mutiny is no longer just a collector of old media like books and records - it's becoming a catalyst of and contributor to local culture, catering to all ages with arts, music, spoken word, meetings and even madcap, physics-based magic shows. They bought the used bookstore from Denver artist and legend Jack Jensen in 2013 with partner Joe Ramirez, who has since left the business.
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Mutiny Information Cafe continues to mutate under the ownership of longtime Denverites and friends Jim Norris and Matt Megyesi.