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.
Future of iconic Circle Food Store up in the air
Soon, the neighborhood grocery may be added to the list of beloved places that ‘ain’t dere no more.’
What does a new PJ’s coffee shop mean to New Orleans East?
Location, location, location. This coffee shop is close to the I-10, and easy for N.O. East residents to get to.
Feeling good, feeling grate: Your guide to Mac N’Cheese Fest
Crawfish mac, pulled pork mac, Cowboy Mac, Buffalo Blue Cheese Mac, Vegan Mac. Need we say more?
Trombone Shorty joins Juvenile, Partners-N-Crime for Hometown Threauxdown
Trombone Shorty’s home, y’all. Let’s jam!
What does our ideal Mardi Gras look like? Forum on future of Mardi Gras looks for answers
We know, Mardi Gras is all about having a good time. But, you’ve got to ask, does that come at the cost of pulling 46 tons of beads from the catch basins?
Lord of the Wings: Pythian Market is having a wing showdown
Shake ya tailfeather down to the Pythian Market’s wing showdown before the Pels opening night game.
TODAY is the last day of registration to vote in November elections
Constitutional amendments include prohibiting felons from public office and unanimous juries for noncapital felonies.
A 300-foot-long Parkway shrimp po-boy? Come and get it.
Yes, it’s dressed, and free to boot.
Yes, our city had a second line for a cat because… New Orleans
While Zap Cat’s antics caused a power outage for more than 7,500 people on a Monday morning, that didn’t stop a crowd from coming out to celebrate his life.
New Orleans’ Prince of Wales second line celebrates 90 years with style
Blue and gold were on full display under the St. Charles Avenue oaks Sunday.