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.
Curve the Runway puts a twist on how people view plus-sized fashion
Like your good Spanx, the organization is the perfect foundation for showing off your curves. The fashion show aims to show plus size women of all heights and backgrounds together embracing their curves and brings designers, consumers and vendors out on the town.
🍽️ When it’s hot, keep it COOLinary
The temperatures are high, but we’re keeping it cool
Weekend Picks: Foodie Fest, National Rum Day, Groovy Blood Drive
Dancing keeps the blood flowing this weekend, literally. Here are our weekend picks for Aug. 16 – 18, 2019.
Dirty linen or clad in crimson?💃
After a pristine and clean-clothed walk last week along Julia Street in your brightest of linens, it’s time to dig up the gallery gallivanting garments from your hamper and saunter on down to Royal Street for the French Quarter’s funky follow-up — Dirty Linen Night.
Weekend Picks: French Fete, Red Dress Run, Dirty Linen Night
For the first time in a few years, the pumps actually worked on white linen night, and the evening wasn’t a washout. Now that you’ve worn your tidy whitey’s out and you know it looks good, it’s time to get dirty.
51 signatures, one man – the story behind the #UltimateSaintsFan
When Brian Henry takes off his shirt, you quickly realize his love for the Saints is more than skin deep; he’s got the signatures of 51 people with Saints affiliations tattooed on his back, arm and ribs.
Start your grinnin’ and wear your linen: Summer is sizzling away 🌞
While the heat (and/or occasional flooding) may keep you inside in these final sweaty summer days, time waits for no one.
Weekend Picks: Satchmo Summerfest, Pool Party Yoga, Black & Gold Fan Fest
It’s the beginning of August already?! You know what that means: back to school, heavy traffic in the mornings, and dare we say it, football season is coming!
Satchmo Summerfest: Where to park, pee, what to pack
The three-day festival features more than 30 acts and food vendors.
Rebirth: Dixie Beer, a burned building and New Orleans East
The new brewing facility plans on providing jobs, and even bringing tourists and large events out to New Orleans East.