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Review: CCT’s Production of Mousetrap

Monday, January 23rd, 2006

Overall rating: 4/5
College towns everywhere are home to incredibly talented people. Laramie is no exception. This weekend we attended the Centennial Community Theater’s production of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. Having never attended one of CCT’s productions before, we were expecting country-bumkin theater. What we got instead was a treat.

Review: Technopoly, by Neil Postman

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

Overall rating: 5/5
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology is a provocative, highly entertaining book. As you may expect from Postman (or from the in-your-face subtitle), this is not a paean to technology. Rather, it is a warning that technology comes at a high cost, a subtle, slow process in which humanity turns [...]