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.
We went to the Trolley Stop post-Gordon Ramsay makeover
Ramsay shredded it and then gave it a makeover. How is it now? We checked it out for you.
These are the red light traffic cameras that are still on in New Orleans
The city is continuing to look for school zone locations where the deactivated cameras can be moved.
We watched Gordon Ramsay rip Trolley Stop to bits, and we have questions
Really, does anyone order nachos at Trolley Stop?
Comic Con for beginners: It isn’t just playing dress up
Here you are, in your comic book t-shirt, looking out of place. Don’t worry, we’re here to help.
Weekend Picks: Comics, Carnival, and Choppa Style
Use the weekdays to take a breather because once this weekend hits, it’s back to the craziness.
Twelfth Night is coming! Here’s how to celebrate the start of Carnival season
Catch your breath while you can, because Sunday is the official start of Carnival season.
Q&A: Jared Green, the 24-year-old author who overcame depression, criminal charges
To anyone on the outside looking in, you’d never know Green battled suicidal thoughts while he wrote his children’s book ‘There’s a Creature in my Belly.’
The story behind the viral video of Stevie Wonder performing to that b.e.a.t.
During a 2012 gala after party, music legend Stevie Wonder jumped on a bounce beat. It was just as magical as you’d imagine.
🎆10…9…8…the final countdown of 2018 is coming!🎉
Bah humbug, Christmas is over. 😩Whether you were naughty or nice, it’s time to look forward to 2019.
Let’s get it started: Why black-eyed peas are a staple of New Year’s Day
Every year, ya mama n’em would always tell you to make sure you got in your black-eyed peas and cabbage for good luck and money. But how did the tradition come about?