by Matt Baume • Apr 28, 2021 at 4:20 pm Nightlife venues are fighting to stay open. Who's fighting for the workers? CHARLES MUDEDE “March 12 is the doomsday date,” recalls Steven Severin, owner of several local venues including Neumos, Life on Mars, and Barboza. He’s thinking back to the moment in 2020 when performance venues shuttered around Seattle, around Washington, and around the entire country. “Within three or four days, I picked up the phone and started calling every venue and manager around the state and said, ‘How are we going to get through the next few months?’ That’s all we thought it was going to be.”