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.
My Amazing Cheap Date: Riverfront Fun and Coffee in New Orleans
My Amazing Cheap Date” explores fun, romantic, unique things that can be done in New Orleans — all for $50 or less.
My Amazing Cheap Date: Vietnamese Cuisine, and Local Brew
“My Amazing Cheap Date” takes viewers through a variety of fresh, fun, and charming date ideas in the great city of New Orleans — all for $50 or less.
My Amazing Cheap Date: Viet-Cajun Fusion and Time in Nature
My Amazing Cheap Date” brings viewers along for inventive date ideas in beautiful New Orleans — all for $50 or less.
My Amazing Cheap Date: macaroons, stand-up comedy in New Orleans
“My Amazing Cheap Date” takes viewers through a variety of fresh, fun, and charming date ideas in the great city of New Orleans — all for $50 or less.
My Amazing Cheap Date: Unique Museums, Drinks and Entertainment
My Amazing Cheap Date” takes viewers through a variety of fresh, fun, and charming date ideas in the great city of New Orleans — all for $50 or less.
My Amazing Cheap Date: Funky Art and Tacos in New Orleans
“My Amazing Cheap Date” takes viewers through a variety of fresh, fun, and charming date ideas in the great city of New Orleans — all for $50 or less.
My Amazing Cheap Date: Hatchet Throwing, Board Games, and Tacos
“My Amazing Cheap Date” explores fun, romantic and unique things that can be done in New Orleans — all for $50 or less.
Eat Play Stay: Lake Charles, Louisiana
Located a little over three hours from New Orleans and just over the East Texas-Louisiana border, Lake Charles, Louisiana, is home to nature walks, Cajun restaurants, breweries and a bustling art scene.
My Amazing Cheap Date: Unique Drinks, Pet Lovers and Barbecue
In this episode, two couples compete to see who can have the best date for $50 or less.
Blind Kitchen: Chef Manny (Barrels and Boards) vs. Chef Ryan (Wild Fox Pierogi)
Blind Kitchen is a quirky food competition series, local chefs recreate each other’s signature dish, but they can only determine what the dish is using their senses of taste, touch and smell.