SNL's Kazurinsky to host Chicago Emmys

Former "Saturday Night Live" trouper Tim Kazurinsky again plays host to the local Emmy Awards at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, at the Park West, 322 W. Armitage, Chicago. The event, sponsored by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, gets started with mingling and a meal at 5:30. Tickets are $145. For details, see chicagoemmyonline.org.

Radio Hall of Fame

Chicago great Studs Terkel and Naperville product Harry Kalas, voice of the Philadelphia Phillies and NFL Films, are both inducted posthumously into the Radio Hall of Fame in a black-tie gala at the Renaissance Chicago Hotel, 1 W. Wacker Drive, and airing live at 9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, on WGN 720-AM and WLS 890-AM. The late Jose Miguel Agrelot will become the first Hispanic member of the Hall of Fame. Other inductees include Dr. Demento, Atlanta's Neil Boortz, New York's Wendy Williams, Westwood One founder Norman Pattiz and Ed Walker of Washington, D.C. Tickets are $350, available at radiohof.org.

Roots rock

Classic-rock WDRV 97.1-FM disc jockey Bob Stroud releases the 11th volume in his "Rock 'n' Roll Roots" series on Tuesday, available at Chicago-area Borders stores. Proceeds this year go to LifeSource, Chicagoland's Blood Center. Stroud will unveil some of the chosen cuts on his show from 7 to 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 8.

Ripping bad yarn

The Hughes brothers, Albert and Allen, revisit the Jack the Ripper murders in "From Hell." The movie's kind of a bloody mess, but it does star Johnny Depp as a psychic opium-addicted investigator, Robbie Coltrane as his sidekick and Heather Graham as a beautiful prostitute (a real stretch). It's at 10 p.m. today on AMC.