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Shortly after Aretha Franklin’s death on Thursday, her granddaughter, Victorie Franklin, shared a moving tribute to the Queen of Soul on social media.  The younger Franklin posted a video on Twitter showing her grandmother singing and playing piano, just months before her death. “I have many memories of me coming …

Now on display in Washington: work of an artist with a distinctly different slant on things, as Serena Altschul shows us:  He paints upside down (meaning the art, not the artist). It’s the long-time trademark of German-born painter Georg Baselitz. Altschul met up with the artist, accompanied by his translator, …

First came Netflix. Next comes Disneyflix. And then comes… Walmartflix? Giant retailer Walmart (WMT) is considering launching a subscription streaming video service to go up against Netflix and its e-commerce foe Amazon, according to a report by The Information, which cites unnamed people familiar with the matter. It could be priced at less than $8 …