Milwaukee, WI
7 Ways to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month in Milwaukee
1. Hispanic Heritage Month Kickoff
SEPT. 12 FROM 4-8 P.M. | DEER DISTRICT PLAZA
This year’s Hispanic Heritage Month Kick-Off will be held at the Deer District, with a lineup of vendors, food and live music all evening long. This event is hosted by the Hispanic Collaborative.
2. Latine Placita @ UWM
SEPT. 16 FROM 11 A.M.-2 P.M. | SPAIGHTS PLAZA (SPAI)
UW-Milwaukee is celebrating Latine Heritage Month with live music, dancing, local Latine vendors (including free caricatures and tarot readings), and a live performance by Los Nenes Del Lago at 12 P.M.
The Unity Awards celebrates people and organizations who are working to make Milwaukee a better place for all. Know someone who should be honored?
3. Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration
SEPT. 17 FROM 4-8 P.M. | ZÓCALO FOOD PARK
Milwaukee Film is kicking off Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations with music from local DJ Loop. Local vendors include MKE Rag, Alquimia Skincare, Lupo Designs, Designs by Lali and Ina Maka Holistic Crystal Jewelry. Plus, there will be delicious food and drinks.
4. Celebración Latina: Cultivating Raíces (Roots)
SEPT. 20 FROM 11 A.M.-3 P.M. | MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
Visit the Milwaukee Public Museum to see Afro-Latin and Caribbean dance performances, and learn about Latin America through hands-on activities.
5. Puerto Rican Festival
SEPT. 21 FROM 11 A.M.-8 P.M. | HENRY MAIER FESTIVAL PARK
Hosted at the Summerfest Grounds, the 12th annual Puerto Rican Festival brings an electric lineup of Latin musicians, food and vendors to celebrate the rich culture and heritage of Puerto Rico.
6. Noche De Gala
SEPT. 27 AT 5:30 P.M. | LATINO ARTS
Indulge in tequila tasting, yummy tapas and authentic cultural experiences to benefit the Latino Arts Strings Program and its community of young musicians. The gala includes raffles and auctions, and an evening of Latin American cuisine, art and dance.
7. Celebración Latina: Hands-On Heritage
OCT. 11 FROM 11 A.M.-3 P.M. | MILWAUKEE PUBLIC MUSEUM
Learn from local artisans sharing their craft and cultural knowledge through hands-on workshops hosted by the Milwaukee Public Museum – artisan tables will be set up on the first floor.
Want more great Milwaukee events? Check out our calendar!
Drone video shows dug‑up yard at former Michael Lock home
Drone video shows a dug‑up yard at a Milwaukee home once owned by Michael Lock, following a police search for possible homicide victims.
Milwaukee police on Monday, April 20, began digging up a home once owned by notorious Milwaukee drug dealer Michael Lock.
The dig marks another chapter in Lock’s long criminal history in Milwaukee, which has included convictions for homicide, drug dealing, kidnapping, torture and running a prostitution ring.
As of 6 p.m., April 20, police had partially dug up the concrete driveway and yard in Lock’s former home. Lock has been convicted of murders of other drug dealers whose bodies were found under concrete slabs at a different home he owned.
As the dig continues, here’s what to know about Lock:
Who is Michael Lock?
Lock was the head of a murderous criminal organization known as the “Body Snatchers” and one of the leading criminal operators in Milwaukee until his 2007 arrest.
Over the course of a decade, Lock’s organization sold large volumes of cocaine, tortured and killed other dealers, prostituted women across the Midwest and ran a mortgage fraud scheme.
A jury convicted Lock in July 2008 in the homicides of two drug dealers in 1999 and 2000, whose remains were found in 2005 under concrete slabs in the backyard of a home once owned by Lock at 4900 W. Fiebrantz Ave. He has also been found guilty of running a prostitution ring, various kidnapping and drug dealing charges and mortgage fraud.
Where is Michael Lock now?
Lock is is serving multiple terms of life in prison at Waupun Correctional Institution without the chance of parole.
Where are Milwaukee police digging on April 20?
Milwaukee police confirmed they are executing a search warrant at the home on 4343 N. 15th St. in Milwaukee’s north side. City tax records show the property is owned by Shalanda Roberts, formerly Shalanda Lock, Michael Lock’s former wife.
Why are police digging up the yard of Lock’s former home?
There has long been suspicion on the part of law enforcement that there are additional bodies buried under the yard. In 2011, police dug another Milwaukee yard looking for remains.
In that warrant 15 years ago, investigators said at least four victims are buried somewhere in Milwaukee. Before that, police had dug a half-dozen other yards. Police have found no remains in the other digs.
Who lives at the property now?
It is unclear if anyone currently lives at the North 15th Street property. Shalanda Roberts told the Journal Sentinel she owns the property where police are digging, but it is a rental and she lives out of state now.
She said she has no information on the dig and has not spoken to her former husband in years.
Read the Journal Sentinel’s past coverage on Michael Lock
The Journal Sentinel documented the case against Lock in a five-part investigative series, “The Preacher’s Mob,” published in 2009.
You can read the series below:
Marvin Bynum, adjunct professor at Marquette University Law School, was named to BizTimes Milwaukee’s list of Notable Leaders in Law.
Bynum, shareholder and real estate attorney with Milwaukee-based Godfrey & Kahn, teaches a course on real estate transactions at Marquette. He has experience with a range of property types, from sports facilities to manufacturing plants and office spaces, and works to help clients navigate transactions including development, financing, leasing, acquisitions, dispositions and low-income housing tax credit-financed projects.
Notable Leaders in Law is part of BizTimes Milwaukee’s Notable series, which recognizes leaders in the southeastern Wisconsin business community.
Six alumni were also named to the list:
- Jim Brzezinski, managing partner and CEO of Tabak Law
- Adam R. Finkel, partner at Husch Blackwell
- Jeremy Guth, shareholder and attorney at O’Leary-Guth Law Office S.C.
- Keith Kopplin, shareholder at the Milwaukee office of Ogletree Deakins
- Isioma Nwabuzor, associate general counsel and assistant corporate secretary at Modine Manufacturing Co.
- Joe Pickart, partner at Husch Blackwell
Milwaukee Wave coach Marcio Leite 2025-26 team’s evolution in MASL
See first-year Milwaukee Wave head coach Marcio Leite discuss the roles of younger players and veterans as the 2025-26 MASL season begins.
The Milwaukee Wave had been in the awkward position of trying to sell tickets to the MASL championship series without knowing when it would actually host a game.
The questions were answered late April 19, when the San Diego Sockers beat the St. Louis Ambush in the other semifinal in overtime. Their series didn’t even start until four days after the Wave eliminated the Baltimore Blast with victories in a regulation Game 2 and knockout Game 3 at the UWM Panther Arena.
Now the finals are set for two of the most decorated teams in arena soccer.
The Wave will host Game 1 at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 and then the series will finish at the Frontwave Arena in Oceanside, California, with Game 2 at 9:30 p.m. April 24 and a potential Game 3 at 9 p.m. April 27.
Three versions of the Sockers have totaled 16 championships in various indoor league with the latest iteration founded in 2009 owning six of those. The Wave has seven.
First-year Wave head coach Marcio Leite has won titles with both franchises.
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