Istanbul's famous buildings, including the Blue Mosque, with its six minarets, and Hagia Sophia are Islamic in character yet entirely unlike the mosques we see in India or the Arab world. This is a distinctively non Arab Islamic style, heavily influenced by European architecture and by Christian traditions. (Hagia Sophia actually started out as a church).

The producers of Bravo's "Top Chef" added a dash of cloak and dagger to the mix during their 51/2 weeks of on location filming.A wrap party for the sixth season was held at Blush Boutique Nightclub on Saturday at Wynn Las Vegas. Attendees included head judge Tom Colicchio, along with fellow judges Padma Lakshmi, Gail Simmons, Ted Allen and Toby Young.The newspaper where you worked full time since 1982 folded on short notice three months ago.Where do you turn to restart a career? "That's what you come to Vegas for, right? To roll the dice," said Drew Litton, who is in town this week to join 25,000 attendees from