Photographer Mike Nyman documents Worcester for 365 days.

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Well, if you blinked you missed it. But in the continual march of artistic flames that flash and then fade from Worcester’s landscape, the city was, for a brief time this year, home to a belly dancing studio. It was, owner Phoenix Avathar claimed, the city’s “only all belly dance studio.”
The Dancing Ember Studio closed up in August when Avathar announced she was returning to the North Shore. If you dined at the Morocco Restaurant this year you may have caught Avathar and some …

The Smtihs, who’ve lived in their home for nearly 30 years, discover their home is landlocked and the street in front of them is the backyard for a new duplex development.