It was another setback for the Church...

It was another setback for the Church of the Most High Goddess.

High Priestess Mary Ellen Tracy and her husband, Wilbur, were arrested on pandering charges Tuesday after a woman undercover officer applied for a job at the so-called sex church in the Silver Lake area, Los Angeles Police Sgt. Doug Nelson said.

The Canyon Country couple had been free on bail pending an appeal of their September conviction on prostitution charges. Mary Tracy claimed at the time that one of the church rituals is for male “worshipers” to have sex with her in exchange for monetary “sacrifices” in excess of $100.

Los Angeles Police Detective Alan Vanderpool said Tuesday that he overheard Wilbur Tracy brag to the undercover officer, who was wearing a hidden microphone, that the church was well known, thanks to television.

TV reporters, Tracy explained, “always call during the sweeps” period, when the size of the stations’ audiences are measured in order to set their advertising rates.

No film at 11.

You may have read in The Times that some businessmen linked to King Fahd of Saudi Arabia headed a group that secretly acquired a major stake in leases on public land in Marina del Rey.

Certainly, they picked a spot with an appropriate name.

After all, Marina del Rey roughly translates as “The King’s Harbor.”

Who says there’s no night life in downtown L.A.? Certainly not the three black-clad daredevils who scaled an office building under construction on Figueroa Street and then tried to parachute to the bottom.

Witnesses reported that two of the jumpers floated all the way down, police said. But a third hit some trees and landed around the corner on a fourth-floor patio of the First Los Angeles Bank building on Wilshire Boulevard at about 1:30 a.m. Tuesday.

Whatever, that parachutist apparently opted to descend the final floors the slow way.

Police Sgt. Ted Matthews said: “We found a trail of leaves leading to the fire escape.”

Had the Grinch struck in Northridge?

There it was--a “For Sale” sign plastered on the side of a “Santa and Live Reindeer” trailer in a vacant lot.

Actually, it was some surplus equipment owned by a Christmas tree company that displays live deer at some locations.

Santa’s still got his sleigh.

Anyone looking for some light entertainment might consider the following seminars open to the public at Caltech this week:

Today: “Studies on Retinal Proteins: Visual Transduction, Photoaxis and Bleaching Adaptation.”

Thursday: “Murine Developmental Control Genes.”

Friday: “Multi-Cellular Motion in Enclosures With Lateral Heating.”

The last, by the way, is not a reference to driving on the freeway.

As far as we know.