Zoe Sottile

(CNN) — With growing cases of explosive diarrhea around the country, restaurants have had to make some changes.

(CNN) — Earlier this month, Charli XCX watched “Point Break,” the 1991 action flick starring Keanu Reeves as a rookie FBI agent. It was, she said, “top to bottom the coolest everrrrr.”

With “Music, Fashion, Film,” Charli XCX relies on a rolodex of references to push her main message: apathy is out, caring about art is in.

(CNN) — “Choosin' Texas,” Ella Langley's languid heartbreak anthem about losing her cowboy sweetheart to a girl from Texas, which Rolling Stone has declared the song of the summer, is everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

Ella Langley, the star behind summer sensation “Choosin’ Texas,” is a bigger deal than you might realize.

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(CNN) — Julian Shapiro-Barnum is using a lot of new words to describe himself. He's a “passionate lover” and a “bisexual twink.” He jokes about “cruising” and goes deep on the social etiquette of posting nudes to Instagram stories. He is doing this weekly before an extremely online audience on YouTube , who tune in to see Shapiro-Barnum do everything from asking the elderly for sex advice to getting lessons in the art of thirst traps.

Julian Shapiro-Barnum doesn’t want to just be the “Recess Therapy guy” anymore. With a new series, he shows the world he can hang with the grown-ups, too.

(CNN) — A teenage girl named Billy is having sex for the first time – sex she consented to verbally, but reluctantly. She had to be talked into it. It's awkward, uncomfortable. In her eyes, you can see that she's not entirely there – she's somewhere else, like a spectator, outside her body looking in.

Cult director Jane Schoenbrun’s newest film makes an argument for pursuing fantasy and pleasure as a path to self-actualization.