"My All-Time Favorite City In The World!" Thompson tweeted last June, when he dropped in to DJ at the Do Over, a hip-hop day party at White Owl Social Club in Southeast Portland. That's not an empty platitude of the sort rock stars use to get cheap applause: He's been shouting out Stumptown for years. Back in 2008, when Rolling Stone asked him about the places he'd most like to live, he said Portland tops his list "because of its record stores—plus it has the most strip clubs in America per capita." Three years later, in Philadelphia magazine, Thompson reiterated his infatuation, ranking us above Austin, Tokyo and, yes, even Philadelphia, adding Nike headquarters and our "awesome throwback '80s arcade" to his reasons for loving Portland.