Is it already that time of year again? Tamara the Friendly Bartender says Soda will host a big-screen Oscar party Sunday night. If Oscars, celebrity wine tastings, and tapas bar openings aren’t enough, you might want to check out DH’s garish but functional post-your-own-event calendar.

If Friday afternoon work avoidance is your plan, then go create some controversy in the forums. But don’t make me delete you.

Yesterday’s New York Times: Aguayo & Huebener just sold a 2-bedroom, 925 sq. ft. condo in Park Place Towers (222 Park Place) for the asking price of $521,675. The condo, 10 weeks on the market has a $283 common charge (taxes not yet assessed).

As set speed points out, that’s $564 per sq. ft., or quite a premium over new condo developments in more "edgy" quarters of Prospect Heights.

"A _____ grows in Brooklyn." It may sound like a good idea at the time. Turns out, it’s not. Here are the Top 100 offenders.

Photo: A tree grows.

Stacey on Underhill shocked and stunned us with a substantial donation of money made though the PayPal link (over there on the right). Let’s hope this is part of a continuing trend (hint, hint). Stacey, your donation kicks off the campaign for the first-ever DH Prospect Heights get-together, location TBA, date TBA, event TBA (though it’s pretty clear the East Coast could use its own competitive Rock, Paper, Scissors league).

Speaking of get-togethers, Stacey wants to plan a meet-the-neighbors Block Party, maybe sometime in the middle to end of June, and she’s already got Salsa band lined up! If you want to help Stacey plan for a block party, maybe you can go start a topic on the ProHo message boards.

PS. Thanks to NUMBER ONE MONEY MAN for the James Dean Hell Bank Note.