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.
🚗On you mark, get ready, FEST! 🏃💨
Hopefully you’ve had time to plan and prepare, because it’s only going to get crazier, and hotter, from here.
Weekend Picks: Spring has sprung! Time for fun!
Festival season has officially started, but if you’re looking for other things to do, there’s no shortage.
Q&A: How NOLA Sips’ 22-year-old owner went from second lines to her own shop location
At only 22-years-old, Stricen Carter made the decision to put her last semester at SUNO on hold to follow her dream of expanding her business, NOLA Sips. Now, she’s on tour with one of New Orleans biggest social media moguls.
What is Afrofuturism? BlerdFest aims to answer that at its first sci-fi convention in New Orleans
Were you the weird kid, the oddball, the amine or comic book stan? This one’s for you.
☔Rain, rain go away, don’t you want to fest today?🌩
The weather the past week was gorgeous! Sunny skies, a little breeze. Oh, spring was here!
Weekend Picks: Spring is here! Time to get outdoors!
Grab your windbreaker (because MAYBE it’ll be chilly and/or rainy) so you’re prepared for the unpredictable New Orleans weather, and get out there!
Road tripping for Ponchatoula Strawberry Fest? Here’s what you need to know.
It’s a berry good time!
Geaux forth and fest: Our picks for April
Here are our picks for local fests in April, and even a few must-do ones out of the city.
#PupsOfJay: This New Orleans UPS driver’s Instagram will make you howl with joy
Hardesty isn’t just any delivery driver. He loves pups. He loves them so much, there’s even a hashtag dedicated to his amour: #PupsOfJay.
