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.
Now you can (legally) throw back the beads you don’t want, report says
Now you can get rid of those extra beads before they even get inside your house.
From Mid-City to Netflix: Locally made lashes create eye-catching looks
Chimera Lashes, made by hand locally by lash designer Ingrid Victoria, have been seen gracing the faces of everyone from Pussyfooters to numerous “RuPaul’s Drag Race“ alums.
Shop Leauxcal: Mid-City’s newest craft store collective is a creative dream come true
NOLA Craft Culture in Mid-City is everything a creative mind could ever want: glitter, rhinestones, feathers, boas, glue, puff paint, you name it. There are even holographic painted beetles.
Weekend Picks: Mardi Gras is coming quick
So you thought it was a “long” Carnival season? Parades kick off this week!
Canoodling in the Crescent City: romantic spots for Valentine’s Day
More often than not, Valentine’s Day gets overlooked because it falls on the day of one of your favorite parades, but this year, it shines all by itself before the big parades start.
NOPD releases video in NFL robbery investigation
Tackling the robbery head-on, the First 48-style video pokes fun at one of the biggest sports tragedies to-date.
From Katrina to cookies: How a New Orleans baker turned sorrow into sweets
Baker Daniela Brenes, talked about her cookies that have gone viral on Facebook and how you can get your hands on some for bae.
Weekend Picks: Everything but watching that football game
There’s so much going on in the city, we won’t have to watch football on Sunday!
Super Bowl Blackout Second Line planned for Sunday
“Please join us as we mourn the untimely ending of the New Orleans Saints season,” reads the Facebook post announcing the second line.
2019 French Quarter Fest music cubes are out!
Beginning Friday morning, festival-goers can download the French Quarter Festival App and start planning.