Barry Divola
Barry Divola is a journalist and author who specialises in music, popular culture, the arts, podcasts and travel.
The new album from this local jazz trio is a soul-enriching experience
Vazesh – featuring saxophonist Jeremy Rose, tar player Hamed Sadeghi, and bassist Lloyd Swanton – cast a spell on Tapestry.
- by Barry Divola, Annabel Ross and John Shand
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Cirque du Soleil’s Luzia: circus feats, in a downpour
Plus: get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.
- by Kerrie O'Brien, Katrina Strickland, Barry Divola, Francis Mocnik and Dani Valent
‘The cleanest toilet in the world’: Why I joined a guided dunny tour
Tokyo’s public toilet project has spawned guided tours, Instagrammer invasions – and even a Wim Wenders film.
- by Barry Divola
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Hotel reviews
If you want a good-value, perfect base for exploring Manhattan, this is it
“This is Where the Magic Happens” reads the pink neon sign near The Moxy Lower East Side Hotel reception desk. Ain’t that the truth.
- by Barry Divola
Even Trump can’t kill the mood for musical funsters the Flaming Lips
A brush with death at 16 left frontman Wayne Coyne looking on the bright side. At 63, he has no plans to tone things down.
- by Barry Divola
Next up on the wellness agenda, sleep – and the sleep retreat
Plus: get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.
- by Konrad Marshall, Barry Divola, Sharon Bradley, Frances Mocnik and Nicole Abadee
Watergate journo Bob Woodward goes to War in his latest book
Plus: get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.
- by Greg Callaghan, Frances Mocnik, Barry Divola, Jonathan Seidler and Damien Woolnough
Smooth ’70s grooves and convertibles: Inside the ‘city pop’ revival
Plus: get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.
- by Barry Divola, Katrina Strickland, David Swan, Frances Mocnik and Damien Woolnough
Films, bad songs and a new series: The Skylab craze just keeps giving
Last Days of the Space Age probably won’t be the last word on the biggest thing to hit Australia in 1979.
- by Barry Divola
‘We are pretty awesome’: Meet indie rock’s new supergroup
The Hard Quartet, featuring Pavement’s Stephen Malkmus and Dirty Three’s Jim White, are coming to Australia.
- by Barry Divola
No longer hiding a bad-hair day: the baseball cap is back
Plus: get ready for the weekend with these fresh diversions.
- by Deborah Cooke, Melanie Kembrey, Sharon Bradley, Louise Rugendyke, Barry Divola and Melissa Singer
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