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.
A day in chilly Gentilly
It looks residential and low-key, but some of the best food and chill spots in the city are here.
Best Bets: Halloween, Jazz in the Park and Food Truck Fest
Halloween is this week, along with the return of Jazz in the Park and Food Truck Fest.
Bellegarde Bakery bringing organic grains, old-world process to Carrollton neighborhood
Bellegarde Bakery’s new location allows customers to see their stone mill and how bread is still made by hand.
Weekend Picks: Voodoo Fest and all the brews and boos you can handle
Since Halloween falls in the middle of the week, this weekend is the best time to get all your ghouls together for guilt-free fun.
Free parking downtown might soon to get the boot
Think parking downtown is already a hassle? Well, now the chances of you getting a coveted free parking space might get slimmer.
This is Halloween: tricks and treats around town
So maybe you don’t like haunted house or taking candy from strangers. There’s still lots to do for Halloween.
So, you didn’t win $1.6 billion, but you can still get something with that ticket
We hope you didn’t throw away that losing ticket!
Voodoo Fest: What you need to bring
Whether it’s your first time going, or you’re a vet, we’ve got a list of essentials you shouldn’t leave home without.
Xeno Moonflower: ‘If music doesn’t make you feel good, it’s the wrong kind of music’
You can feel his self-described ‘flowiness’ in the strum of his guitar.
Potholes? There’s an app for that on the way.
You know those statuses on Facebook about how you hate potholes and the city never fixes them? Well, now there might be an app for that.