Monday Essentials: 5 Things Every Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch User Needs to Know This Week

Start your week off right and check out these five things every Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch user needs to know: 

1. Echo Park-Silver Lake Patch has a new local editor!
Meet Marla Shevker! Click here to learn everything you need to know about Marla and to give her a warm welcome. 

2. Have you checked out "Hot Tub With Kurt & Kristen" at The Virgil? 
From our events calendar: Hosted by Kurt Braunohler and Kristen Schaal, Hot Tub With Kurt & Kristen is a weekly variety show that features comedy from today's best comics, music artists and the occasional oddity. Click here for show information.

This isn't the only cool event happening in or near Echo Park and Silver Lake this week. Click here for our events calendar. 

3. The Millennium Hollywood project hearing is happening
The Los Angeles City Council is scheduled to hold the final public hearing on the Millennium Hollywood project on Wednesday, the outcome of which will have a big impact on nearby Hollywood. Stay tuned to Patch for news on the hearing. Click here on these previous stories to learn more about the Millennium Hollywood project:
New Petition Opposes Millennium Hollywood Project
City Council Vote Postponed on Hollywood Millennium Project
Plans for Millennium Project Released, Public Comment Period Open

4. What's the weather going to be like today near Echo Park and Silver Lake?
Click here to find the latest forecast for the weather. 

5. How's the local traffic near Echo Park and Silver Lake?
Click here to find up-to-the-minute traffic information near Echo Park and Silver Lake from Mapquest.com.