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For the select group of Masonic father-and-son combos, the Lewis Degree is a special ceremony binding generations of Masons.

Meet Zahid Peoples, a party-starting Bay Area Mason who hypes up crowds from sports games to music festivals.

There’s no missing the massive, Egyptian-inspired wall art known as the Raj Mahal, executed by Mason artist Raj Champieri, at Downey United No. 220.

In Endeavour, the Masterpiece mystery and prequel to Inspector Lewis, the Masonic lodge is given the third degree.

A Latin folk musician and Freemason, Alejandro Laborde goes behind the Masonic meaning of some of his favorite lyrics.

Led by ‘The Pentaverate’ and ‘The Lost Symbol,’ allusions to secret fraternal organizations based on Freemasonry are suddenly everywhere.

150 years after he first proposed the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the legendary eccentric and Freemason Emperor Norton may finally get his due.

As the Masonic youth order Rainbow Girls celebrates its centennial, a look back on all that’s changed, and all that hasn’t.

Get to know California Freemason Eric de Jesus, a Master Mason and master of taekwondo.

The 18th century Benicia Masonic Hall, the oldest Masonic lodge in California, gets a 21st century makeover.

It’s curtains up at the Masonic, one of San Francisco’s best-loved venues for music, comedy, and other shows.

The inside scoop on how the junior grand warden is chosen.

Decoding the patterns at the Masonic Homes.

This fall, in ‘Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol’ on Peacock, a new Masonic mystery thriller hits the streaming airwaves.

Could a hiding-in-plain-sight Masonic icon change the way we understand a Diego Rivera masterpiece?

California Masonic lodges return after more than a year apart.

A historic Masonic temple in Vallejo finds new life as artists’ lofts.

A new exhibition remembers when the Knights Templar came to town.

What one lodge’s mothballed painting tells us about its earliest days

A North Bay Mason’s curious claim on a mysterious icon

The inside story behind one of the most curious pseudo-Masonic rituals around.

For more than 150 years, the Folger cipher had Masonic experts stumped—until Dr. Brent Morris and his team at the NSA took their turn.

Marvel at the explosive bond between a group of pyrotechnic engineer Freemasons.

How a group of scooter-loving Masons found fellowship on two wheels

A woodworking hobbyist turns his sights on the Masonic lodge

On the 25th anniversary of the “Stonecutters” episode of The Simpsons, a look back at one of the greatest comic send-ups of Freemasonry ever.

How one Mason relied on his brothers for a solo 550-mile bike ride for charity.

Musician Nate Smith of Table Mountain Masonic Lodge No. 124 in Paradise, California, turns loss into inspiration—and a fresh start.

Whether he’s designing digital monsters for Hollywood films or founding a new Masonic lodge, VFX expert Bryan Godwin knows the secret’s in sweating the details.

Meet the South Bay Mason who’s built a community on two wheels.