Mary Staes
Mary Staes is Digital Content Lead for Very Local. She works with our freelancers and crafts content for our social media platforms and website. Before Very Local, she worked with CBS affiliate WWL-TV as a web producer and weekend assignment editor for about 4 years. She has also handled broadcast coverage for 160 Marine Reserve training facilities while she served as an active duty Marine. As a native New Orleanian, she takes being "very local" to heart. She loves being intertwined with the culture and figuring out how there are less than two degrees of separation between us all, whether we're natives or not.
🤔 Got an inkling for something fresh?
When it comes to creativity, New Orleans is overly familiar with the right-brained out-of-the-box thinkers who bring that extra pizazz to the city.
Weekend Picks: Tattoo Arts Convention, Lizzo, Lil WeezyAnna Fest
New Orleans is having its annual tattoo convention, and big names like Lizzo, Ari Lennox, Travis Scott and Megan Thee Stallion are coming to town.
🕯️The changes we’ve seen after 14 years
August 29 is a day etched into the memory of every New Orleanian: today marks the 14th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Weekend Picks: Southern Decadence, LCM at City Park, Curve The Runway
It’s a weekend of celebrations: LGBTQ pride, curves in fashion and the Little League World Series champs!
We tried the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich: yes, location matters
We’ve been talking about it for months, and now the rest of the nation is catching up: the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich IS delicious.
#CatchbasinCar: Crews pull vehicle from Lafitte Canal
Move along, nothing to see here: Thursday Sewerage & Water Board crews pulled a Mazda 626 from the depths of the Lafitte Canal.
🐂Run to save your buns in Nueva Orleans
Around here we don’t eat to live, we live to eat, and this time it’s no different.
Weekend Picks: No Limit yoga, Running of the Bulls, Midsummer Mardi Gras
Running from roller derby girls in the heat with a beer in hand? Yes, please.
Curve the Runway puts a twist on how people view plus-sized fashion
Like your good Spanx, the organization is the perfect foundation for showing off your curves. The fashion show aims to show plus size women of all heights and backgrounds together embracing their curves and brings designers, consumers and vendors out on the town.
🍽️ When it’s hot, keep it COOLinary
The temperatures are high, but we’re keeping it cool