Hilly Kristal, like his legendary East Village rock club, CBGB, is dead; he succumbed to lung cancer this morning at the age of 75. But, thanks to the magic of recordings and photos and video and especially YouTube, Kristal, like CBGB, will live on. Our colleagues at Vulture dug up a YouTube clip of the Ramones at CBGB in 1977, and they present it as a tribute to Kristal, his club, and the bands he nurtured in its heyday. Take a look.

CBGB Founder Hilly Kristal Dies at 75 [Vulture]
Hilly Kristal, Founder of CBGB, Is Dead [NYT]

R. Kelly! Live in New York! For the official premiere of Trapped in the Closet: Chapters 13–22! Omg omg omg! Okay, yeah, so he barely said anything. And wouldn't talk to press. And didn't have much of a boldface-name turnout. So what? Vulture was at the IFC Center for that momentous occasion, and its minions report back.

R. Kelly Even More Awesome in Person [Vulture]

The Simp-sons. Yup, today's the day, and The Simpsons Movie is out. Over at the Times, A.O. Scott rather liked it. Over at Vulture, Dan Kois didn't. (And over at NPR, where David Edelstein is opining because there's no new mag next week, he didn't much either.) There's plenty of Simpsons Movie coverage — text! Video! IM conversations! — waiting for you at Vulture.

'The Simpsons Movie' coverage [Vulture]

You're as surprised as we are, no doubt. A Sex and the City movie, which we'd long thought was dead — Kim Cattrall wouldn't play nice with the other girls, we were told, and Sarah Jessica had moved on to bigger and better things, like TV commercials — is actually, really, finally happening. This news comes from today's Variety, which also reports that series creator Michael Patrick King will write and direct the film and that New Line Cinema — like HBO, a Time Warner unit — will produce it. We'd like to say we're happy about this development, but we live in the West Village and we're not looking forward to the additional influx of fanny-pack-wearing Midwesterners this movie will deliver. They're only cupcakes, people.

Dust Off Your Manolos: ‘Sex and the City’ Heading to the Big Screen [Vulture]

Beverly Sills, the Brooklyn gal born Belle Silverman, died of cancer yesterday at 78. She was a quintessentially American diva — a quintessentially New York diva, even — who bridged the high and low worlds of grand opera and American pop culture as a charismatic broad who could get things done. New York's Christopher Bonanos offers an appreciation at Vulture.

Beverly Sills Dies at 78 [Vulture]

So we were sitting there around 10:30 last night, more or less hating ourselves for just having spent a half-hour of our life watching Entourage. Had it always been this obnoxious? Did we just earlier not notice because we needed the comedown from The Sopranos, needed a half-hour of self-impressed vacuousness in which we could decompress? Or was it newly, differently bad lately, specifically last night? Good thing, then, we've got Vulture and its Entourage Guilt/Pleasure Index. Adam Sternbergh examines last night's installment — including, as he points out, the most unpleasant mental image ever conjured by a television show — and declares the episode almost entirely guilty. Good to know it's not just us.

The ‘Entourage’ Guilt/Pleasure Index: Turtle Gets a What? [Vulture]

Okay, yeah, this is cool. Our friends at Vulture notified us that on the promotional site for the coming-soon Simpsons movie, you can create your own Simpsons character. We share Vulture's frustration that there's no option for eyeglasses, rendering it impossible to create our own Simpsons likeness. But, still, we just managed to kill twenty minutes with thing. Go. Have fun. Just be sure to put in your contacts.

Build Your Own 'Simpsons' Character [Vulture]
Simpsons Movie [Official site]

New York's Jada Yuan profiled Lily Allen for the current issue, checking in on the British popster's "working holiday" in New York. It only got 600 words in the magazine, but the two gals spent all day hanging out — riding the subway, visiting Heatherette, walking the Brooklyn Bridge, scarfing down pizza. Allen sounds off on bikini waxes, L.A.'s friendly paparazzi (really!), Bloomberg, the Hamptons, and her first carbohydrates in three weeks. It's all at Vulture.

Bikini Waxing, Lesbian Dreams, and Mayor Mike: Lily Allen, Uncut [Vulture]

HBO wasn't the only source of unanswered questions last night. There were plenty from CBS, too. A few: Did "Being Alive" make any sense to viewers who hadn't seen the rest of Company? Why was "Revolutionary Costume for Today" so good onstage but so lousy onscreen? How did David Hyde Pierce (whom we love, but still) beat Raúl Esparza? (Also: Esparza was sitting next to a woman, so is he straight again now? And should we be impressed that Hyde Pierce thanked his partner "of twenty-four years" or a little disgusted that he did so only at the Tonys, never at the Emmys?) Doesn't "Please welcome Chorus Line composer Marvin Hamlisch and CSI star Marg Helgenberger" sound like a Family Guy joke? And, perhaps of the gravest concern to us, what exploded on Marcia Gay Harden, and did that explosion also blind Judd Hirsch (or somehow turn him into Richard Belzer)? We expected at least some of these questions to be answered on Vulture today. No luck. Guess The Sopranos got in the way. Tomorrow? (We do, after all, love ya, tomorrow.)

Tony Awards coverage [Vulture]

What did Liev Schreiber, Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Julie White, Brian Dennehy, and Felicity Huffman have to say backstage at the Tonys? Find out in our Interactive Party Lines.

No, no, silly. Not Tony Soprano. (We'll always have TiVo.) Antoinette Perry! In the sort of brilliant marketing move that could only come from the industry that thought a Bob Dylan dance play was a good idea, Broadway's biggest honors will be presented Sunday night, opposite Tony Soprano's final stroll through the tomato patch. While everyone else is desperately building excitement for the HBO juggernaut, the good folks are Vulture are looking ahead toward CBS's annual ratings flop. They've got Tony-award news, Tony-award drawings, and, perhaps best of all, Tony-award picks from real-life Tony voters. It's all at Vulture.

Tony-awards coverage [Vulture]