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Kate McLean

Kate McLean is a trained chef, freelancer, and contributor of the Houston Press. She has explored, feasted and cooked all over the world including extended stints in France, Seattle, Hawaii and Houston.

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Before It's Gone: A Summer Playlist

By Kate McLean
Aug 11, 2020

Damn, bro. It's August how did that happen? Okay, okay, that doesn't mean we can't still act a summer fool— under the current guidelines that is. On the plus side, we won't have soon to be flooded feeds of back-to-school pictures to look forward too! On the plus side, have...
Mayor Turner Will Fast-Track The Removal of Confederate Monuments

By Kate McLean
Jun 12, 2020

Mayor Sylvester Turner announced Thursday the intended removal of two confederate statues will be expedited to happen before Juneteeth, the observance on June 19 of the day in 1865 when slaves in Texas were read the Emancipation Proclamation. "Our plan for relocating confederate statues from public parks to locations more...
Acevedo Brings Forward Family Members in Officer-Involved Shootings to Explain Why No Video Released

By Kate McLean
Jun 6, 2020

Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo has undergone fire from the public as well as media for not releasing body cam footage of the seven officer-involved shootings that have occurred in Houston since April 21, six of which were deadly. In a press conference Saturday, Acevedo along with Mayor Sylvester Turner...
Protests Heat Up After the Peaceful March On City Hall For George Floyd [UPDATED]

By Kate McLean
Jun 3, 2020

On Tuesday, after a powerful and peaceful march that attracted what organizers estimated to be 60,000 people in honor of George Floyd, yet another splinter faction of the group flirted with destruction beginning in late afternoon. Houston police chief Art Acevedo was called back to Discovery Green, particularly the intersection of...
60,000 Support George Floyd's Family On March To City Hall

By Kate McLean
Jun 2, 2020

Sixty thousand people joined the family of George Floyd as well as elected officials and religious leaders today in a peaceful Houston march from Discovery Green to City Hall organized by rappers and civic activists Trae tha Truth, Bun B, and Floyd's nephew Brandon Williams. Floyd, 46, a native Houstonian...