Throw 400 growers and producers from 50 states with another 400 "investment" types onto the warehouse event space that is Fort Mason in SF and you get the third annual Slow Money Conference. Here's what some of our L.A. growers, yep Angelenos, are seeking. more ›

Today marks the beginning of the 3rd National Gathering of Slow Money. Slow what? Think slow food first. Now think of the farmer that needed the loan to fix the barn where he milked the goats. Can you picture the farmer explaining artisanal goat cheese at the local Bank of America with Blossom and Buttercup in the lobby? Yeeeeah. Not so much? more ›

This Bud's for you, Van Nuys: We might be increasingly interested in craft beer in Los Angeles, but we're also home to a major brewery that's been bottling beer since the 1950s. Now that facility, the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Van Nuys, is about to get a $30 million upgrade as part of an over $1 billion investment plan the company is making towards their American operations. more ›

First Facebook made Mark Zuckerberg millions, then it garnered an Oscar for Aaron Sorkin, and now it has made possible one of the the most expensive sales of a single-family home in U.S. history. Russian billionaire Yuri Milner, who is a heavy investor in Facebook, Groupon and Farmville, according to NPR, purchased the $100 million, 250,000 square foot mansion in Silicon Valley from sellers Fred and Annie Chan. more ›

When the Grand Avenue Project got the green light in March 2008, the fact that its financing came from Dubai was a boon, not a burden, since the wealthy nation had been enjoying its time in the spotlight as a playground for abundance and construction. Now questions have arisen as to whether Dubai's current money troubles will affect the development. "The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday asked for a report on whether financial problems in Dubai will affect the $3 billion Grand Avenue project, whose developers have borrowed money from Dubai investors," according to the Daily News. more ›

Cue six degrees of Kevin Bacon game now... Three more victims of Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme were announced, including the Hollywood couple that is Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. Madoff is accused of running a reportedly $50 billion Ponzi scheme in which investment money from new clients was taken to pay off earlier investors. Hollywood is no stranger to playing victim to Madoff--Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, business manager Gerald Breslauer and Eric Roth (screenwriter of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button) are among those swindled. more ›