-- Unspeakable (2007): Documentary about the life of Satanic Priest Steven Johnson Leyba, "ordained by Church of Satan founder Anton LaVey, is known in the underground art world as the 'Father of Sexpressionism.'" (Chortle) Screens tonight at 7:45 p.m., 9:05 at the Roxie New College Film Center; $6. -- The W. Kamau Bell Curve: Local comedian's show, it seems, is "designed to end racism...in about an hour." Praise Jesus. This night o' comedy will......

La Vache Enragee Productions presents Trimming the Holidays, The Second Annual Shorts Show at the Shelton Theater (533 Sutter St. at Powell). Tonight is a special pay-what-you-can performance. The Shorts Show is an evening of short plays and silent films accompanied by live music, exploring the December holidays with a healthy dose of humor. It promises to be this season's fun alternative to the traditional holiday fare. (8pm) Anything else going on tonight? Please......

Back in the 1970s, everyone was talking about Traffic Commissioner Jerry Levitin. Commish Levitin, a former criminal defense attorney, spent the decade of stagflation reducing or just outright vacating over 200,000 tickets, and giving what sounded like hilarious colloquies from the bench about the injustice of the San Francisco DPT. Loved by the people! Hated by government! So in 1980, when Levitin was preparing to run for a Superior Court judgeship, KRON came out with a report that Levitin had been lowering parking ticket fees for his political supporters. The report was wrong (Levitin had been reducing parking fees for everyone, supporters and detractors alike), but in the meantime, he lost his job at the traffic court and the DPT went back to its red-zone-enforcing ways. At the time, Levitin wrote a play about his experience -- which sat unproduced for the next 15 years as he and his wife moved to Maine to start a B&B and write travel books. Well, after 15 years, the play has finally been staged (with some help from Kamau Bell), at the Shelton Theater. Called "I'd Kill for a Parking Place," it's described as a murder mystery-comedy "written for revenge," starring a beleaguered traffic court commissioner. You know we gotta see this! Our review's after the jump. Thanks to Bruce Pachtman for his support of our coverage!...

SFist believes wholeheartedly in supporting the local arts, and when those local arts can also make us laugh (intentional or not), well so much the better. Which is why when we heard the Shelton Theater is currently staging a production of the Christopher Durang play Beyond Therapy, we attended a performance with much eagerness. We remember reading and loving the play back when it was a Broadway hit in the early 1980s, and we......

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