| Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released yesterday say for every 100 women, there are only 99 men. This is old news to Sydney single Daniela Pintabona, who says working long hours and the lack of men are hurting her ability to get a date. “There are definitely less men out there,” she says. The 29-year-old project manager has been single for 15 months following the break up of a 4-year relationship. She was in two long-term relationships for a total of 10 years and as a result is “very m... | My Chemical Romance guitarist Ray Toro says that all five members of the group were dealing with various personal issues while the band wrote its new album, The Black Parade, in Los Angeles earlier this year. But Toro told us that taking on the fictional identity of a band called the Black Parade helped My Chemical Romance get through the tough times: "Each member of the band was going through something difficult, whether it was in their personal lives, or musically, like, maybe just being like ... | November 19, 2006 -- In a traditional paperback romance, the hero is a strapping stallion, all flowing locks and rippling pecs, the latter preferably visible through a half-open shirt on a windswept cliff. In the hot new "paranormal romance" version, the hero may literally be a stallion.
Such is the case with a "shape-shifting" character in "Kissing Sin," by Aussie Keri Arthur. Like most of its kind, it takes the familiar bodice-ripper plot points and peoples them with all manner of creatures.... |
