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.
Yoga, and cats? Purrrfect combination.
Footprints to Fitness is sponsoring Mats and Meows and it’s an event that’s sure to leave you feline fine.
Every Mardi Gras Indians’ suit has a story, hers is a love song to strong women
“That’s her! That’s Tahj! Oh, she’s so pretty!”
Weekend picks: It’s only been a week, time for another parade!
We hope you’ve recovered from Mardi Gras because guess what….
Erin go bragh! ☘St. Patrick’s Day is almost here
St. Patrick’s Day is Saturday, and because we haven’t had a parade in a whole week, it’s going down!
Tab Benoit, Amanda Shaw headline 2019 Bayou Boogaloo
Last year, the first day was brought to a halt when a storm blew through the area, twisting tents and stages.
Headed to the Irish Channel for St. Patrick’s Day? Here’s what to pack.
Just when you thought you’d recovered from Mardi Gras, guess what?!
Pretty pretty! Super Sunday is coming, here’s what you need to know.
In other cities, it means that big game at the end of the NFL football season. But to New Orleanians, it means a chance to see the Mardi Gras Indians again.
New riverboat plans to stay docked, double as concert venue
The Riverboat Louis Armstrong is in the final stages of renovations, but what makes this vessel unique, is that it’s doubling as a music venue.
Water in a drinking game?! You might need it for #RexComus
Unlike the old-line krewes, a few changes might be made next year to bring the game up to date.
Everything still hurts and we’re dying 😩
Thursday-Tuesday is a blur, and everything around us is moving slow. Extra long Carnival = extra long recovery, right?