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The Dalai Lama is Coming!

02.22.11

On May 4, the Dalai Lama will return to UCI to engage students and the community in a dialogue about global and ethical leadership, personal responsibility and compassion at the Center for Living Peace.

Pricing for the Dalai Lama event will be available online here on March 22. For more information, go to livingpeace.uci.edu.

In the meantime, Greer's OC received these fun pictures of Sir Richard Branson from the last Living Peace Speaker Series where more than $250,000 was raised for Virgin Unite.

Sir Richard Branson was the star of the evening in full pirate regalia as he challenged entrepreneurs “to be a force for good” at last month’s speaker series and shared fun anecdotes about how the Queen must have forgiven him for Virgin’s days with the Sex Pistols before knighting him.

He answered questions about like “What’s your biggest obstacle as an entrepreneur?”

‘Everybody will tell you why your idea is wrong.” Branson says. “Nine out of ten new ideas will fail. I say, screw it, just do it, that’s also a book I wrote."

"Sir Richard Branson at the Center for Living Peace in Irvine"

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The Center for Living Peace is open Tuesday through Sunday. At the University Center Shopping Center at 4139 Campus Drive in Irvine. 949.854.5500.

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Ska Time!

02.21.11

Coming in on two decades of ska punk music, genre veterans Less Than Jake is performing at the Anaheim House of Blues tonight (Feb. 21) in support of their new album TV/EP. Their latest work, released in October, features classic television theme songs & commercials as reissues of "Losing Streak" and "Hello Rockview" are scheduled to hit shelves on March 1.

Less Than Jake are accompanied to Anaheim with reggae jammers Supervillains and Off With Their Heads, an incredible punk group from Minnesota.

House of Blues is at 1530 S. Disneyland Dr. in Anaheim. 714.778.BLUE (2583).

(Photo Credit: Dennis Ho)

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