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.
Here’s what you have to do when a boil water advisory is issued
Maybe you come from a place where you don’t have to boil your water every six months. Here are the basics you need to know.
Know Your NOLA: 16 years, 600 proposals and 2 hurricanes: the story of NOLA Gondola
You think you know a place, especially City Park, until you’ve seen it from the seat of an authentic Italian gondola.
Party of one? Here’s a list of Singles Awareness Day events
There’s plenty to do around that doesn’t involve romance, candlelit dinners, or chocolate.
Weekend Picks: Smaller equals raunchier, as far as parades go
Smaller doesn’t necessarily mean “more contained,” and if you go to this weekends parades in the French Quarter, you’ll see why.
Looking for crawfish in New Orleans? There’s an app for that.
Need to know where to get crawfish? The price? How big? Finding out is now a lot easier.
Son of a Saint needs your old beads for a good cause
Dig those old beads out of your closet! It’s time to declutter for a good cause.
Home away from home: A day in Mid-City
The businesses bring a familiar, welcoming vibe, and as the name states, being in the middle of town offers the perfect spot for everyone to get together and chill.
Now you can (legally) throw back the beads you don’t want, report says
Now you can get rid of those extra beads before they even get inside your house.
From Mid-City to Netflix: Locally made lashes create eye-catching looks
Chimera Lashes, made by hand locally by lash designer Ingrid Victoria, have been seen gracing the faces of everyone from Pussyfooters to numerous “RuPaul’s Drag Race“ alums.
Shop Leauxcal: Mid-City’s newest craft store collective is a creative dream come true
NOLA Craft Culture in Mid-City is everything a creative mind could ever want: glitter, rhinestones, feathers, boas, glue, puff paint, you name it. There are even holographic painted beetles.