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  • Film Review: ‘Anyone But You’
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    Film Review: ‘Anyone But You’

    Direction: Will Gluck Screenplay: Will Gluck, Ilana Wolpert Cast: Glen Powell, Sydney Sweeney, Alexandra Shipp, Dermot Mulroney, Rachel Griffiths, Bryan Brown Length: 103 minutes Rating: 15 For the record, my expectations upon entering the cinema (Kino Kristiansand) for my fifth and final press screening for Unikum (for this film review you’re reading) weren’t high. Romcoms…

  • Battle of the Christmas Sodas
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    Battle of the Christmas Sodas

    With the holidays right around the corner, Unikum wanted to share one of its favourite things about the Norwegian Christmas, with some of our excellent exchange students. There are countless types of Christmas soda, with some special to specific locations in the country. Whether you enjoy red or brown Christmas soda the best, is up…

  • Poetry corner: November
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    Poetry corner: November

     by Babet Berning Winter is coming, Every year again. Sweaters on, Dresses off.   Winter is coming, Every year again. Days shorten, Sunlight decreases.   Winter is coming, Every year again. Thunderclouds forming, The canals freezing over.   Winter is coming, Every year again. Sleeping more, Sleeping late.   Winter is coming, Every year again,…

  • For he has sworn upon a crimson moon
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    For he has sworn upon a crimson moon

      Woken up, through a red veil over the sky, washed away with a swift motion of my hand. A ringing noise disturbed my slumber, and the stars were as close to me, as my breath extended. I got picked up by him, his face all red and white like a moonlight tint. His armor…

  • Poem corner: October
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    Poem corner: October

    THE KETTLE  – Evgeniia Kadyrova   the kettle is boiling on the cooker  and I’m sitting there    the sound literally deafens me  and I’m sitting    the sound penetrates every cell of my tired body  as I sit    the whistling of the kettle is already a part of me  as I sit   …

  • Short story: Girlhood
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    Short story: Girlhood

    I pull the arms of my sweater down to my fingers as the chill from people passing through the doors creeps up on me. The lingering smell of sweet chai tickles my nose as I look down at my empty cup. In front of me, around an ornamented, brown, and vintage table sit six old…

  • Unikum’s Corner of Hidden Treasures: Video Game Music

    Unikum’s Corner of Hidden Treasures: Video Game Music

    Unikum’s Corner of Hidden Treasures is a column in which Unikum recommends pieces of media they believe more people should know and love.   For this Unikum’s Corner of Hidden Treasures I’m casting a wider net, not just putting a single media in the spotlight but an entire genre! Funny enough, music and soundtrack in video…

  • 10 at UiA: What is the most shocking thing about Norway?

    10 at UiA: What is the most shocking thing about Norway?

    Photos: Private, Angels Aguilera, Jakub Swierkocki   Every semester, new exchange students arrive to campus and Norway for the first time. After they have settled in, we wonder what their first impressions were. We have asked ten people from different countries to look at Norway through their unique lens.    Carl Feese, USA     …

  • The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
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    The Most Beautiful Girl in the World

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  • Movie Review: Barbie
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    Movie Review: Barbie

    The Barbie movie is the film I never thought I would be this unbelievably hyped for, but in the weeks leading up to it, there was a tangible excitement growing in me. Entering the premiere and seeing so many people who’d dressed up, proved I wasn’t the only one who experienced this euphoria. But could…

  • Poetry Corner
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    Poetry Corner

    [resemantization]     A sound  and its own halo  above me  constructing new horizons  of views unseen  Yet I remain myself  Behind the grazing fields of sound  A new world  of poetics        [poetic license]     Poems like to talk about themselves  And hide behind metaphors  But I am not like that  I recoil when…

  • ChatGPT: How to (not) use it

    ChatGPT: How to (not) use it

    “Write a paragraph where you explain what you are, when you were created, how popular you’ve become the last couple of weeks and what kind of questions your creation has raised. [input from the writer]  I am ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence language model developed by OpenAI. I was created in 2021, and have since become…

  • Nothing good ever happens after 2 AM

    Nothing good ever happens after 2 AM

    I’m clutching the glass of water in my hands as if it’s going to shatter if I only squeeze a little harder. His gaze drills holes through me, as if he’s asking me why I am here. Why am I here at 04.22 AM when I should have downed two glasses of water at home,…

  • Poem: New Seasons

    Poem: New Seasons

    New Seasons    The heart opens heavily  It’s like there is no muscle memory anymore  Everything changed within  The rain and the snow formed new seasons  To live in, to live by  But when you go back to them  The heart opens heavily    Covered in snow and being rained upon  I saw myself as…