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 am going to New York for a week in March and was planning on crashing with an old friend from High

Sometimes, you need to be a little fancy. For some, being fancy includes eating fancy things. Such an activity is rarely affordable for Broke-Asses, until now! Starting Saturday, January 15th, through Monday, January 31st, several awesome San Francisco restaurants are offering deeply discounted prixe fixe menus for the 10th annual

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

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, My best friend is getting married and I’m helping plan the wedding.  They’re just doing a very small courthouse ceremony with a

Hal Lutsky is at it again.  His famous tri-annual vintage paper fair is happening again this Saturday and Sunday, and it is going to be a paper-filled funanza.  It’s a commonly recognized fact that old stuff is better (with the exception of food and underwear), and old paper is especially

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

Ever since my forced viewing of ‘œRed Pavement’ in driver’s ed, I have had a profound appreciation for cheesy, after-school-special videos warning me of the evils and dangers of the world.  So much so, that I have a hard time learning lessons if they aren’t delivered by the likes of

Christmas is over. You’ve stuffed yourselves to the brim with holiday cheer and baked goods, and are preparing your livers for the New Year’s celebrations to come. The only think left to do is return the ugly fill-in-the-blank that you’re great aunt/uncle/cousin gave you for the fourth year in a

If you’re hanging around the city this holiday season, you may be tempted to park yourself on a lonely bar stool and drink a year’s worth of sorrows away.  While I support that in theory, I must insist that alcohol is best served with friends (or surrogate friends as it