MINALIN, Pampanga—While almost everyone is resting after the New Year revelry, men in this poultry capital of Central Luzon welcome 2012 by parading around town dressed like women, complete with makeup and jewelry. Their mothers, wives, sisters or daughters accompany them for the three-hour parade, enjoying the once-a-year cross-dressing event. Called Aguman Sanduk (Fellowship of [...]
With old photographs on hand, Dr. Purita Pineda, Janette Lopez, Jun Laxamana and other residents trooped to the parish hall of the Sta. Monica Church in Minalin, Pampanga, on Sunday. They went there to lend pictures for a museum that was being planned in time for the declaration of the church as a National Cultural [...]
MINALIN, Pampanga – THE TOWN of Minalin in Pampanga is turning 400 years old in 2014 (based on the year of its separation from Macabebe town in 1614), but a mural almost its age, probably one of the oldest in the Philippines, is crumbling. Bearing the date 1619 and painted on one of the walls [...]
