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The Duluth School District announced on Thursday that there will be no proms for Duluth East or Duluth Denfeld high schools this spring.

Last year, like other schools, the Pine Knot News said the school canceled the prom and made a movie of students graduating and other highlights from the year on a large screen.

Thanks to help from a gal that knows first hand how expensive going to prom can be,  there is a chance for students currently enrolled in a school of the Northland that might not have a dress for the high school dance or prom can now show up with sparkling confidence.

They call her the "dress fairy".  I call her the woman with utmost compassion and true love for helping others.  Her name is Mary and thanks to her dedication and giving up half her basement for storage, high school aged girls currently enrolled in a school of the Northland that might not have a dress for the high school dance or prom can now show up with sparkling confidence.

I had heard about the "dress fairy" before, but had no idea how much care, compassion and true love for helping others was involved.  Until, I met Mary Francis-Bennett.  Thanks to her dedication and giving up half her basement for storage, girls in the Northland that might not have a dress for the high school dance or prom can now show up with sparkling confidence.

What do you do when all the girls you ask to prom are already planning to go with other guys? Apparently, you get on Twitter and start asking porn stars to go with you. That’s what one Minnesota teen has done.

Three new movies are opening at our local Marcus Theatres this weekend. One has the makings of a mega-blockbuster in 'Thor,' the latest in a long line of superhero movies from Marvel. Interestingly enough, this one is from critically acclaimed and Oscar-nominated director Kenneth Branagh, the man behind such Shakespeare adaptations as 'Henry V.' The other big releases this weekend are a nice alter

'Fast Five' kicked into high gear at the weekend box office. The action-packed sequel, the fifth in the 'Fast and the Furious' franchise, took in a whopping $83.6 million, setting a record for the best April opening ever. (April's previous owner was fittingly 2009's 'Fast and Furious, with $71 million.) 'Fast Five's' impressive debut was more than enough to dethrone last weekend's box office champ