Jive's Pitch

Hello Scott,

In a city with few places for the cultural mixing ideal of ideal of hip, does Jive's Coffee serve that role for the Colorado Springs area?

Jive's is a local place I heard about through the grapevine. It is a local coffee shop with live music on the weekends and open mic nights on Wednesdays or Thursdays depending on which location one chooses as their preferred location; either the Old Colorado City location or the N. Nevada Ave. location. They also display and occasionally sell art community artists. As it is a coffee shop, it tends to serve as a place to communicate and share ideas by it's nature. However, the live music and community art push the shops into more of a hip location in my opinion as they allow for the development of a sort of local hip. Coffee shops are to the spreading of ideas as bars are to rowdy shenanigans, which sort of means that coffee shops are the introvert's bar.

However, it could be questioned whether or not Jive's has lost some of it's hip status as it no longer is a singular local place. Starbucks was once a hip place, but seems to have lost that status as it has developed into an international chain. Rather than the place were creative hipsters buy coffee, it is now known as the place were rich White girls in Ugg boots buy mocha frappachinos. However, Jive's hip status has another reason to be debated. I have only been able to go to the Nevada location but it seemed to act more as a study hall for UCCS students than a hip meeting place. It's hip status is a matter of debate. It would be an interesting topic to explore.

Would this work?

Regards,

Emily