Newport News, Virginia

"[S]everal old maps where the name is given as Newport Ness, being the mariner's way of saying Newport Point."

"Newport News is the oldest English place name of any city in the New World. Today its population exceeds 183,000."

"Bad News, VA? Now, that sounds great. I see niggas with that ice on, rims shined up. This town's one big pussy, waiting to get fucked."

"Within slightly more than 100 years, the sleepy village of Newport News has transformed itself from a sparsely populated region of watermen and farmers to a city known as one of the nation's greatest centers for shipbuilding..."