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A word on sidewalk etiquette?

The other morning, we were doing our usual brisk clip around the neighborhood, with Sparkle pulling ahead out in front, me in the middle, and Porter trotting along behind -- our customary on-leash formation. As we headed along one st [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2012 | Comments : 0

Etiquette: It's not just for the dinner table

With an unusually warm winter season, we are seeing lots of people making good use of parks, trails, sidewalks and roads during months when usually many are confined to treadmills and stair climbers. Let's all keep in mind that just b [...]

Posted On : Feb, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Develop chess etiquette

I WANTED to call this week’s story, The Art of Resigning, but then I realised that the resignation process in a chess game is just a part of chess etiquette. So what is chess etiquette? More than anything else, it means how to be [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Orgy Etiquette Part 2: Hosting

There are two ways to host an orgy. One is to prime the scene for the "oopsie orgy," an "unplanned," tipsy night with a handful of curious friends who all happen to trip and fall into your bed after a series of suggest [...]

Posted On : Dec, 07 2011 | Comments : 0

Etiquette: No gluten? No fat? Deal gracefully with that

If you would like to dine gluten-free, please ask to see our gluten-free menu."Restaurants are printing notes like this in droves, and hosts are now googling phrases like "lacto-ovo" before dinner parties. Dietary rest [...]

Posted On : Nov, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Changing room etiquette

Ok, so it is the age of ready-to-wear and we have mostly decided to dispense with the darzi and his inch tapes, and fit ourselves out in new clothes for any occasion at the nearest mall. Which means we are part of the changing room brigad [...]

Posted On : Oct, 22 2011 | Comments : 0

An etiquette lesson for Anonymous Internet Man

Baroness Greenfield has written an interesting piece for the Telegraph about the possible link between social networking sites and a decline in empathy amongst young adults. The theory, roughly, is that the anonymity granted by the intern [...]

Posted On : Oct, 20 2011 | Comments : 0

Chinese etiquette and cuisine

The original meaning of the word li was “to sacrifice,” which may have referred to the idea that, following all the culturally sanctioned rules of Confucian etiquette, required sacrifices. It includes knowing in detail the hun [...]

Posted On : Oct, 11 2011 | Comments : 0

Yom Kippur etiquette guide: Forgive and be forgiven

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, observed this year from sundown on Friday night, October 7th until nightfall on October 8th, and is the Most Awesome Day in the Jewish calendar. Concluding the “Ten Days of Repentance,” als [...]

Posted On : Oct, 10 2011 | Comments : 0

Bears have unbeatable etiquette

Editor's note: This Sunday feature aims to give special recognition to a letter (under 300 words) that stands out for impact, style or in another intriguing way. I am part of the airport ground crew in Eugene, Ore., that handled th [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2011 | Comments : 0

An etiquette guide to going to the movies

One of this year's TIFF Midnight Madness selections, God Bless America, features a modern-day Bonnie & Clyde shooting someone for talking in a cinema. As the festival draws to a close, festival programmer Colin Geddes dreads the retur [...]

Posted On : Sep, 17 2011 | Comments : 0

Mother-in-law email: was etiquette lesson a PR stunt?

Freddie Bourne, the man whose stepmother's etiquette email went viral, is one of the people behind a firm which plans weddings, it has emerged. The revelation suggests her snippy advice to his fiancée – "No one gets [...]

Posted On : Jul, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Movie Goers Weigh In On Theater Etiquette

Summer is around the corner, and that means this year's biggest blockbusters are starting to hit the big screen. With all the big crowds cramming into the movie theaters, we talked to people around town about some of their biggest pet [...]

Posted On : May, 13 2011 | Comments : 0

Cops to get a crash course in manners and etiquette

Next time you meet a polite police person, don't be unduly surprised. The state police are slated to get a crash course in manners and etiquette. The idea mooted by the new state DGP Gauri Shanker Rath to make the police a people frie [...]