Cover: Creepy Calling
As the state's population of sexually violent predators crowds into prisons and mental institutions, a San Jose psychologist says he can help.

News: Megan's Legacy
Megan's Law was supposed to make parents and children feel safer, but in one Fremont neighborhood, it seems to have just made everyone more afraid.

Jurors' Balks: Some members of the Santa Clara County civil grand jury are in an uproar over what they say is unfair treatment of jurors and racial politics.

Metropolis News Extras

• Cupertino: Kaiser Cement Company is put on notice.
  
• Los Gatos: Martial arts teacher on the school board.
  
• Sunnyvale: Trash gets SMaRT.
  
• Sunnyvale: Municipal Court gets efficient.

Bear Nuked: The week of the Big Game, Oski, the Berkeley mascot, undergoes a startling transformation.

Monster Mash Note: The director who animated Frankenstein comes alive in Gods and Monsters.

Trading on 'Celebrity': Woody Allen turns unlikely moralist about adultery in latest film.

Flunking 'History': American History X pulls punches in fight against fascism.

Death Gets a Life: Death doesn't become Brad Pitt in Meet Joe Black.

Internal Abstract: Phe Ruiz pursues the hair-trigger truth of personal reality at new MACLA exhibit.

The Family Jewel: With help from her mother, Jewel transforms sentiment into sanctimony on sweet new album, Spirit.

Blues for a Living: Eddy 'The Chief' Clearwater embraces rock and country in his blues.

Garden Delights: Sunnyvale's Murphy Avenue gets a hearty helping of panache and innovation in its new eatery, Tarragon.