Back to 'Studs' Place'

Back to 'Studs' Place'The Chicago Department of Affairs pays tribute to Studs Terkel, as radio and TV host, author and raconteur, with the presentation "Studs' Place ... One More Time" at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 18, at the Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington St., Chicago. The free program uses some of Studs' favorite music to reflect his life and work. The title pays homage to his freewheeling, highly improvised 1950s show, one of the cornerstones of the so-called Chicago school of television.Sirott back at 'FLDBob Sirott is returning to Fox WFLD Channel 32 to serve as co-anchor of the station's marquee 9 p.m. weekday newscast alongside Robin Robinson and Anna Davlantes. Sirott played host to Channel 32's "Fox Thing in the Morning" in the '90s, and since then has worked at WMAQ Channel 5, WTTW Channel 11's "Chicago Tonight" and WGN 720-AM, which returned him to his radio roots at Top 40 WLS 890-AM. Sirott debuts Monday night, July 19.OK 'Okie'PBS' "American Masters" continues its pleasant slumming in the popular arts with a profile of Merle Haggard, one of the great singers and an original country outlaw, debuting at 9 p.m. Wednesday, July 21, on Channel 11. "Merle Haggard: Learning to Live With Myself" was made by Gandulf Hennig and follows a recent "Masters" documentary on the Doors.'Freaks' and geeks"Freaks" is a horror movie so gleefully, vengefully stoopid, it has served as inspiration for the Ramones and countless others. Tod Browning's 1932 film finds a group of circus freaks exacting vengeance on the snooty and beautiful who look down on them, and it never lets up. It's at 7 p.m. today on Turner Classic Movies.False519416Circus freaks are out for vengeance in "Freaks." False