After a month off for our World Cup international break, I'm happy to report that You're Not From Here is back at the Black Hart of St Paul for an August 5th show. We have a great lineup of guests:
I'll be introducing the group with some fun facts about regional natural disaster patterns. As always, it's free. It's at 7pm and should be fun. Don't miss it!
It's time for another round of You're Not From Here, Are You? We're entering Year #2 with a BANG, three amazing cities that could not be more different: Lakewood, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas. We'll be talking to Ron, Christian, and Ashe (respectively) about their home towns.
Don't miss it at the Black Hart of St. Paul, the nation's premiere queer soccer bar. 7pm! Free as always, and fun as usual. Learn about your neighbors alongside a dash of urban geography. See you there!
Hello! I'm excited to announce the lineup for You're Not From Here #11, to take place this Wednesday (4/1) at the Black Hart of St. Paul. We'll have Merry from Elizabethtown, Will from Covina, and Sarah from Portland on stage to introduce us to their home towns and it should be a great show!
Free for all, and guaranteed to be both informative. See you Wednesday at 7pm!
Good news! I have an exciting lineup for you this month, and you won't want to miss it. We'll be welcoming onto the Black Hart stage Evan from Wellington, Carin from Sunrise, and John from Federal Way. I could not come up with a stranger set of cities if I tried!*
One again, the You're Not From Here Show (a show for transplants) is free to all. It's Wednesday, March 4th, at 7pm.
March forth to the Black Hart of St. Paul on beautiful University Avenue, home to the Green Line, just across the street from the abandoned Walmart parking lot. I hope you see you there!
* Yes, I could actually.
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Boy it's been a month. I'm sure glad 2026 is almost over! Oh boy.
At any rate, I'm hosting another You're Not From Here, Are You? at the Black Hart of St. Paul on Wednesday 2/4. This is a show for transplants to the Twin Cities, who will share a bit about their hometowns. I will also be sharing fun facts about the Twin Cities metro area.
It's at the Black Hart of St. Paul at 7pm and I hope you can make it! Now more than ever, it's good to be in solidarity and community with people in places that are important to us. I'm not lying when I say I've been looking forward to it for weeks now.
This month we have a great group of guests hailing from Omaha, Nebraska, El Paso, Texas, and Beaverton, Oregon. Come and learn about interesting places and why people left them. We will also be raising our glasses to the great people of the Twin Cities, who deserve a bit of praise in this moment.
Fun, free, educational! Hope to see you then.
I'm hosting 2026's first ever You're Not From Here, Are You? (a show for transplants) at the Black Hart of St. Paul next Wednesday, January 7th. I hope you can make it. We have a fascinating and geographically diverse list of guests hailing from (greater) New Haven CT, Hot Springs SD, and Baltimore MD.
They'll be sharing fun facts about their hometowns, and a bit about what brought them to the lovely Twin Cities region. Come down to the Black Hart at 7pm and get the new year off on the right foot!
It's fun and free, and I guarantee you'll learn something new.
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I have to leak that Star Tribune columnist Eric Roper is one of the guests, from the obscure town of Manhattan, so we'll be able to pick his brain about a few things. Theo will tell us about Seattle, while Amy, is going to take us on a tour of her childhood moving around with her divorced parents.
It'll be a great show. It's free. 7pm. Hope to see you there!
It's time once again for St. Paul's best live presentation show about people who somehow moved to the Twin Cities from elsewhere. I'm hosting the "You're Not From Here, Are You?: A Show for Transplants" again this Wednesday at the Black Hart of St. Paul, on University Avenue.
This month, come and hear from some fabulous guests. We have Naomi from Singapore, Will from Memphis, and Martha from Fargo! This will be the longest-distance we have ever covered, some truly unprecedented geography.
The show is guaranteed by me to be both informative and fun. This is not to mention that it is free! Come meet folks and learn a little bit.
See you then!
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Everyone's favorite show about transplants, folks who somehow moved to the Twin Cities and stuck around. I'm hosing You're Not From Here, Are You: A Show for Transplants this Wednesday at the Black Hart of St. Paul, on University Avenue.
This month, come and hear from some fabulous guests. Anna from Crawfordsville, Kelly from Auburn, and Teressa from a bunch of places including Moscow (the one in Russia, not the one in Idaho)!
For those of you paying attention, that's a double dose of Indiana, followed by a deep dive into post-Cold War Eastern Europe. It's a lot of fun. And it's free!
See you then!
Great news! After a month’s summer vacation, the You’re Not From Here, Are You? (A Show for Transplants) its back at the Black Hart of St. Paul next Wednesday, 9/3 at 7pm. I have some great guests lined up, representing the towns of Perkasie, New Bern, and Des Moines.
I can't help but share this tidbit, too: One guest happens to be Em Cassel, editor, writer, and co-owner of Racket. Not only will she be telling us about Perkasie, she'll be sharing some insights gained from their recent article on how transplants make friends in the Twin Cities.
I hope to see you there!
I'm taking a month off for a summer vacation from "You're Not From Here, Are You? A Show for Transplants." We'll be back next month, September 3rd, with some great guests!
I’ll have Katie from Ashburn, Marty from Meuthen, and Andy from Louisville* sharing some stories about their hometowns. I will also be describing what I can about remnant vernacular historical snackways.
You won’t want to miss it! Hope to see you there.
* Yes, this is my friend and co-author Andy Sturdevant, who also happens to be a bona fide Kentucky colonel.
The first YNFH event went so well at the Black Hart bar last month we’re going to do it again! Come on down to Black Hart next Wednesday at 7pm for a fun conversation with Twin Cities transplants from Kansas City, New Haven*, and Pittsburgh. I’ll be hosting a light-hearted and hopefully humorous discussion of hometowns across North America**. Come on down, meet some new people, and learn something about some places that aren’t in Minnesota.
See you then I hope!
* actually Wallingford
** actually just the Midwest and Northeast
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If you're not doing anything at 7:30 this Wednesday, come on down to the Black Hart Bar and hang out with me as I meet three new friends. It's the first ever episode of You're Not From Here, Are You? a event idea I mentioned a while back.
I'm excited to be having on the stage at The Black Hart of St. Paul with me three folks
They'll all be sharing stories about their home towns, how they ended up in the Twin Cities, and I guarantee it will be fun. Let's learn something new and break down the insular bubble at the same time.
Free and open to all! Hope to see you soon.
