Editing Detroit Lakes, Minnesota (section)

==Culture==
===Historic Holmes Theatre===
[[Image:Main entrance to the Historic Holmes Theater in winter.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Main entrance to the Historic Holmes Theatre in winter]]
The Historic Holmes Theatre, a physical and organizational branch of the Detroit Lakes Community and Cultural Center complex, is a recently renovated [[Art Deco]] theatre that hosts year-round music, drama and dance performances. With seating for nearly 1,000, the theatre features a wide variety of professional national and international touring shows (including [[Arlo Guthrie]], the Chinese Golden Acrobats, the New York Theatre Ballet, and the [[Guthrie Theater]]), local performing groups (Playhouse 412, Fargo/Moorhead Jazz Arts Group, Wadena Madhatters) and events (wedding receptions, business meetings, and Detroit Lakes' Annual Festival of the Birds).<ref name="holmes">{{cite web|title=Historic Holmes Theater|publisher=Art Circle of the Lakes|url=http://artcircleofthelakes.org/html/historic_holmes.html|access-date=November 13, 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026143211/http://artcircleofthelakes.org/html/historic_holmes.html|archive-date=October 26, 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref>

===Music Festivals===
Each August since 1983, the city has hosted [[WE Fest]], a prominent camping and country music festival. Campgrounds packed with tents surround a large stage, and the three-day concert attracts around 50,000 music-lovers each summer. In 2007, the attendance reached a record high of 83,000 people over the weekend at the themed "Heavin in '07" concert. The music festival is held annually at the Soo Pass Ranch on [[U.S. Highway 59|Highway 59]] south of Detroit Lakes.

Formerly held in July each year at the Soo Pass Ranch venue, the [[10,000 Lakes Festival]] was put on hiatus as of December 18, 2009. According to 10KLF.com the festival could not grow to financial success.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.10klf.com/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030162954/http://www.10klf.com/ |archive-date=October 30, 2007 |title=Big Game Capital}}</ref>

===Community & Cultural Center===
A recently built Community & Cultural Center serves Detroit Lakes, incorporating a new fitness center with the completely renovated brick building that once was the Holmes School. The fitness and aquatic area features an 8-lane Olympic regulation pool, an indoor track, a fieldhouse featuring 2 basketball courts, a weight room, cardio fitness center, racquetball courts, and a golf driving/putting range. The old 1931 school building houses the renovated 837-seat Historic Holmes Theatre featuring orchestra and balcony level seating, and conference rooms. When completed in 2001, a building of {{convert|105000|sqft|m2}} was the result of $9.5 million in expenses.<ref name="dlcc">{{cite web|title = Detroit Lakes Community & Cultural Center Information| publisher = www.dlcc.org| url = http://www.dlccc.org/aboutus.htm| access-date=May 6, 2007|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070209140727/http://www.dlccc.org/aboutus.htm <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=February 9, 2007}}</ref>