Got a question about how to be a polite Broke-Ass? Email Half-Price Headliner with your queries and get schooled on how to be proper-like. Q: Dear Half-Price Headliner, I have a few birthday dinner invites in the next month and I’m not sure I can afford to go to all

For the broke and insolvent, few events are more dangerous than another’s birthday. Society has decreed that, by virtue of being born, people deserve an annual validation of their existence. Fine, we’ll play along – but only up to a point, because, somewhere along the line, that simple acknowledgment became

I’m not sure if I mentioned this before, but May is my birthday month, and I friggin LOVE birthdays! I also live for any excuse to dress up like a fool and p-a-r-t why? ‘CAUSE I GOT TO! In my experience, everyone loves a good theme party, but it seems

After brunch one day last spring, I took a sunny stroll along Amsterdam Ave. on the Upper West Side. A brightly colored shop immediately caught my eye; the window was filled with hand-painted pottery and a sandwich-board-sign promise that I, too, could create a work of art. I stepped in,