After running for nearly six years in the the San Francisco Bay Area's SF Weekly, Charles Purdy's Social Grace manners-advice column is now available to other publications. It appears here until a new home is found.

Are you unsure how to behave? Charles's book "Urban Etiquette: Marvelous Manners for the Modern Metropolis" combines practical manners advice with lively humor and a healthy dose of common sense.

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