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’re cooking dinner for you
Did anyone know what a heater was until this week?
Weekend Picks: LPO takes Bowie, Friendsgiving, Gumbo Fest
The LPO is taking on David Bowie, we’re hosting Friendsgiving and the chill in the air is perfect for a gumbo festival!
NOLA Freeze: What to know when it hits freezing temperatures in New Orleans
Here’s what to know about and what to prepare for during the freezing weather in New Orleans.
Preparing for takeoff: What you need to know about the new airport
Christmas is in 48 days (because who’s counting?) so it’s time to get together and be festive, ya’ll!
Weekend Picks: the height of Falcons Hate Week
The glorious end of an extended Falcons Hate Week is upon us! We get our first crack at Dirty Bird Gumbo before Thanksgiving.
👻 Local Lagniappe: Happy Halloween! 🎃
Whether you’ve been waiting since Oct. 1 for tonight or the season crept up on you, today is the to get all your ghouls together and celebrate the spooky season.
Weekend Picks: Big Easy Con, CAC Opening Night, Po-Boy Fest
Behold! Po-boy Fest time is here!
On my first All Saints Day without my dad, something is still missing
All Saints Day for many New Orleanians is a pilgrimage. But, what if on your pilgrimage, you didn’t know where you were going?
Come to our house for Friendsgiving at The Shop at the Contemporary Arts Center!
It’s a 3-course dinner party with unlimited cocktails, and you don’t even have to cook or clean up!
📰 Life after the Weekend: Oct. 28
It’s the height of Spooky Season! Between Voodoo Fest, Boos and Brews and Boo at the Zoo, and we 👏are👏tired, and there’s still four more days till Halloween to go.