Holiday surprises come in all forms — including offbeat gifts that you might be tempted to relegate to the back of the closet ...

Keeping your phone face down on the table can keep you more present and less distracted. "Why are you on your phone right now?" says a voice at the dinner table. You look up. Everyone is talking to ...

The Good Doctor investigates your queries on high society blue books, cancelled developments, and one of Hyde Parks Square’s tallest buildings. This is a first: Instead of the Doctor receiving a ...

The workplace is an etiquette minefield, it turns out. The Wall Street Journal’s quiz on office manners stoked much debate and some grousing about what’s polite behavior in the modern workplace. And ...

British etiquette coach William Hanson shared a formal method to eat an orange using a knife and fork. His method involves cutting off the stem, scoring the skin, peeling segments, and eating with a ...

Plus the cruddiest pranks that some diners like to pull. Darron Cardosa is a food service professional with over 30 years of restaurant experience. He has written more than 1,500 articles and blog ...

If my professional life has taught me one thing, it is this: If you work hard at everything you do, are respectful and maintain a positive attitude, many wonderful paths will open for you at different ...

Dear Eric: I just can’t come to grips with the new style phone etiquette where you send a direct question or comment to someone (texts mainly, or emails, messenger, etc.) and it seems now optional to ...

DEAR ERIC: I just can’t come to grips with the new style phone etiquette where you send a direct question or comment to someone (texts mainly, or emails, messenger, etc.) and it seems now optional to ...

Dear Eric: I just can’t come to grips with the new style phone etiquette where you send a direct question or comment to someone (texts mainly, or emails, messenger, etc.) and it seems now optional to ...

This week from the archives: how to stand out at a talent show, how to go to the bathroom during an important phone call, and an unlikely way to check the Wifi on a plane. Plus a “where is he now” 12 ...

What is with the useof speaker phones? Lately, I'm always hearing someone’s speaker phone. Whether it is on any street, in the library’s computer room, the Whole Foods market or any other grocery ...