Norris acknowledges that the city had come by Mutiny once a week for the last couple of weeks, leaving a card behind for him to get in touch regarding outstanding sales taxes that then topped just $31,000, but with all the things going on with Mutiny, he just hadn’t gotten around to calling them back. "If the delinquent taxes are paid, the city will rescind the distraint warrants." "The city’s preference is for our local, small businesses to succeed and remain open, and distraint warrants are only issued when other options for collection taxes owed to the City and County of Denver have been exhausted," explains Josh Rosenblum, spokesman with the Denver Department of Finance. “It would have been comical if it wasn’t so sad, me trying to load up a cat carrier and a beer cooler with some of my personal stuff.” September 22, city representatives showed up with a locksmith. “We’d gotten some letters, but I thought I had some time.”īut at around 1 p.m. “We had no idea this was coming,” Norris says of the city's seizure over the delinquent sales tax bill. While the GoFundMe doesn’t mention it, the chaos caused by the summertime vandalism of the front of the store couldn’t have helped, either. “Coming out of COVID has been hard on all small businesses and humans across the world,” the GoFundMe page notes, describing some of the reasons for Mutiny's current situation: not only the pandemic, but disruptions caused by co-owner Matt Megyesi’s near-fatal heart attack earlier this year. Now we're in this sort of Blues Brothers situation." ![]() It's been a comedy of errors getting to where we are right now. "It's overwhelming," says Mutiny co-owner Jim Norris. By mid-afternoon today, donations had already topped $24,000 in pledges.and counting. In quick response to the seizure, Mutiny set up a GoFundMe page late on September 22, with a goal of raising the $42,126 needed to settle its financial obligation to the city. But for now the doors are closed, and they will remain so until Mutiny comes to terms with the city.or the default becomes permanent and Mutiny is no more. They’re also a part of an artisan market up until September every Friday.The building that houses Mutiny Information Cafe has been seized by the City of Denver for unpaid taxes. It happened, as these things tend to, both after a long slog and all of a sudden. Right now, retail shopping and the coffee window are open from 10am to 8pm Monday through Thursday, 8am to 10pm on Friday and Saturday, and 8am to 8pm on Sunday! In-store seating and live events have just returned as well! Kepi Ghoulie, an American pop punk band will be performing on June 22nd as well. Order a cappuccino and settle in at the newly opened in-store seating. All of this coupled with a cafe serving up strong brew and great coffee. Flip through a section of used books then head on over to the rows of records then make your final stop checking out their unique and coveted wall of comics. ![]() ![]() Their goal is to bring together people with diverse interests and backgrounds in a common space. From used books for cheap deals, to tons of records, to a wall of comics they’ve got everything you might be interested, and is opening the way for fans to discover even more. If you’ve never been to Mutiny Information Cafe, then you might not be aware of the multitudes of media they have to offer. Now, this coffee shop meets bookstore meets record store hybrid has set its roots, and the local community couldn’t be more excited. From a soda fountain to a dance studio as well as a ton of independent bookstores. Broadway has been a multitude of different and local shops in its 35 years. Have you ever wanted a cafe and bookstore that fulfills your pop-culture needs with books, games, and music? Then Mutiny Information Cafe is just the place.
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