Sorry, Jon Stewart; I’ve got a new Daily Show.

I’ve become addicted to Lee Zurik’s reports on WWL’s 10 p.m. news about the ongoing NOAH saga. Tonight’s episode was typically excellent.

Clancy is hip-deep in hip waders in a beautiful Montana stream with his son, catching fish and thinking about better things, but this latest installment of As the NOAH Turns made me wonder just what the legal ramifications could be (hypothetically speaking, of course) about any or all of what Zurik was reporting.

…Clancy? You in range of a WiFi signal up there? Care to opine?

Also of note, to me, was the way Mike Hoss closed the report:

In addition, on July 29, Eyewitness News filed a public records request with the city, to view all of the invoices paid to contractors for the NOAH home remediation program. State law allows the city three days to hand over or provide access to those documents. The city attorney’s office has not said when WWL-TV can view those requested materials.

This all seems relevant to last weekend’s discussion of whether the Times-Pic should throw down in court over the public documents law. It also seems like a warning shot across the City Hall bow.

Interesting. In the meantime, at 10 p.m., I’ll be tuning in for The Daily Show With Lee Zurik.

Considering everything else that’s made in China, it’s only fitting that it’s making history with the upcoming Olympiad.

Filmmakers Ashley Sabin and David Redmon traced Mardi Gras to China. Or rather to a Chinese factory. Their film Mardi Gras: Made in China chronicled that economic link. It’s available on DVD as of this week.

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Crazy conspiracy theories aside, isn’t it a little odd that, a weekend after having practice shortened by bad weather for just the second time in the Sean Payton era, that the New Orleans Saints signed a defensive tackle that last played for a team called “the Storm.” All the while, tropical storm Edouard threatens the Louisiana coastline? Is it also odd that the Saints are also looking at a wide receiver from the Storm, and that said Arena League team plays same city as the Saints Week 1 opponent?

Or maybe I’m reading way too much into things.

It looks like the end of a long and very winding road for Peristyle.

Chef/owner Tom Wolfe issued a news release today announcing that the French Quarter restaurant will serve its last meal this Friday, Aug. 9. The dinner service has been dubbed the “last supper” for Peristyle, but it looks as though at least the building will be resurrected once more as a restaurant.

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Cairo As Seen By Chahine

5:15 p.m. Fri., Aug. 8

Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center

1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; http://nolamideastfilmfest.blogspot.com

The New Orleans Middle East Film Festival, currently running through August 10, presents a screening of the documentary in memoriam of the Egyptian filmmaker, who died in his home last week at age 82. From the festival:

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