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By Jack Brummet Art by Jack Brummet - The Blue Mosque 1. On a dusty cobblestone street I hear three muezzins In three directi...

By Jack Brummet illustration by Jack Brummet 1. On a dusty cobblestone street I hear three muezzins In three directions Call ...

By Jack Brummet The Blue Mosque (© 2010  by Jack Brummet) 1. On a dusty cobblestone street I hear three muezzins In three direct...

Drawings and text by Jack Brummet  [2'x2' surplus hospital muslin with Sharkie[tm] and pencil] click to enlarge ---o0o...

By Jack Brummet arts, paranormal, and poetry editor I n his first visit to a mostly Islamic country, President Obama in Turkey said that ...

We departed Athens this morning at 6:00 AM via two extremely fast cabs to the airport (10 PM Pacifc Time) and arrived at our house in Seatt...

1. On a dusty cobblestone street I hear three muezzins In three directions Call people to prayer At three mosques, With a slight delay Betwe...

Story By Del Brummet All This Is That Contributing Music Reporter Photographs by Claire Brummet All This Is That Contributing Photographe...

After the churches, palaces, museums, and mosques , what I've loved most about Istanbul is the street life. The smells of food cooking,...

Walking among the Turks on cobblestone streets And seeing the kids rebel against The Moslem Way Confirms they're people just like you an...

Click to enlarge the Basilica Cistern's forest of columns After visiting the Blue Mosque, Keelin and I toured the Basilica Cistern. It...

By Colum Brummet, All This Is That Sports Editor On our first night in Istanbul, there was a huge semi-final game in the Euro league socce...

Click to enlarge the Blue Mosque Keelin and Claire put their head scarves on for a visit to The Blue Mosque - click to enlarge The Blue Mosq...

Del, Claire, and Keelin in the vestibule of Aya Sofya--click to enlarge Click to enlarge - Keelin and Jack in front of some excavated column...

...click photos to enlarge... After a somewhat sleep-jangled start, we went out to breakfast at a restaurant four stories up, on a rooftop,...

Our apartment in Istanbul (nee Constantinople) is just around the corner from the Galata Tower... The tower was built as Christea Turris (...

the "living room" W e have arrived and even slept, after a fairly brutal journey here. By the time we finally arrived at the Ber...