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.
Krewe of Krampus: Welcome to the dark side of Christmas
“Krampus knows when you’ve been naughty, and he doesn’t care if you’ve been nice.”
Shopping for those Christmas gifts? Geaux local!
We know it’s tempting to go to big box retailers and sites for your gifts, but there are plenty of amazing gift ideas from local shops and entrepreneurs.
Help break a Guinness world record at a Supa toy giveaway!
Social media moguls Jessica Dupart and Wazzam Supa are shooting for a Guinness World Record so big it has to be in the Supa-Dome!
A guide to Reveillon dinners in New Orleans
The word reveillon comes from the French word for ‘awakening.’
A beignet burger? Disney does its own take on New Orleans cuisine, again.
Between two circular pieces of fried dough and powdered sugar sits a burger, dressed with cheese, bacon jam, lettuce, pickles and onions.
Get Brunchfaced: Messina’s Airport Cafe
From the cafe’s logo to the barstools inside the restaurant, the place has a ‘Casablanca’ feel to it.
Local Black Friday 2018 shopping guide
We’ve gathered up a list of local shops having Black Friday specials so you can start grabbing those gifts for your loved ones.
Want to take a break from Thanksgiving cooking?
Take a break from the kitchen and preparing all that food for Turkey Day. Here’s a freebie to make it easier.
Know Your NOLA: Loyola’s new studio brings artists like Lil Wayne, A$AP Ferg, G Easy to Uptown campus
Word is that national artists have been visiting the new studios at Loyola University, built as part of its new degree program in urban and electronic music production. The program is the first of its kind in the nation, and people from across the country are taking notice.
Drew Brees has his own cookie, and it’s the G.O.A.T.
Haydel’s Bakery is celebrating our beloved QB’s hot streak with a specialty goat-shaped cookie that’s sporting a #9 jersey for the rest of the season.