I went to Omega to attend Claude Stein’s three-day “The Natural Singer” workshop. Had it been for any reason other than singing, I might have come equipped with some critical detachment, an analytical readiness to “read” this place and its people, its language, its demographics, its style and its values, like some rural smartass who had attended half a lecture on Roland Barthes 25 years ago. I am no hardened skeptic or serial debunker (who has the time or the authority for that?), but I might have gone hunting for a playful and unorthodox “take.” That’s my brand, you see.

Thursday, Oct. 3: You’ll find works by such legendary names as Berenice Abbott, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Vivian Maier and Weegee, plus dozens of other top practitioners of the art, early, modern and contemporary.

Saturday, Sept. 28: The New Jersey native has been making finely wrought, sensitive-but-deceptively-edgy folk music since his 1987’s critically lauded debut I Know.

Sunday, Sept. 29: Like so many of today’s music stars, singer Storm Large came to national attention as a contestant in a talent tournament: the CBS show Rock Star: Supernova. As has been proven over and over, a late elimination (in Large’s case, the semifinals) can often be a more auspicious career portent than an outright win.