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.
Center Staige: Missy Elliot reposts 7-year-old second line star
Rap legend Missy Elliot’s tweet Thursday video of 7-year-old Staige Santa Cruze quickly went viral.
Weekend Picks: Cheesy Comedy, but in a good way
Just because fests are soon to be coming to a close, doesn’t mean there aren’t some good ones to venture out to this weekend.
We’re getting ready for Rouxdolph
Whether you’re celebrating by giving to those less fortunate or trying to figure out how to get out of cooking a massive Thanksgiving dinner, we’ve got the goods on how to bring the most to your holiday season.
Holy rhinestones, Batman! NOLA Nerdlesque Festival returns
Capes, pasties and bustier-clad versions of your favorite comic book characters (or villains).
There’s a new Carnival krewe on the Avenue!
Now, 12th Night is getting a little bigger with a second street car krewe joining in on the fun on January 6.
Not cooking for Thanksgiving Day? Here are the restaurants that’ll be open
Not slaving over the stove on Thanksgiving Day? Well, we’ve gathered up a few options for you to still get a good meal in.
Jazz Fest adds extra day for 2019, pushes up opening date
The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation announced Thursday that it’ll be adding another day to the Jazz Fest lineup for 2019, pushing up the starting date to Thursday, April 25.
Foal to the Goal! No really, horse soccer is a thing.
It’s exactly what you think in your head; a huge soccer ball being kicked around by a horse. Apparently, it’s a thing, and not just in New Orleans.
Q&A: Haydel’s Bake Shop brings family business to Magazine Street
His son works up the street. His wife owns a store in the next block. Now, Ryan Haydel is continuing his family’s tradition in his own neighborhood.
Road trip no more: Boudin becoming easier to find in New Orleans
Boudin used to be one of those things you’d hear people talk about when they’d tell a story about visiting family in Lafayette or where they stopped off on their way to Texas. But lately, people’s obsession with the sausage is creeping closer to home.