All week long, Renato has been covering the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minneapolis-Saint Paul, Minnesota for our upcoming News Special: Vote 4 UR Future 2008.

In this clip, Renato rushes out of the airport to meet Meghan McCain (John McCain's daughter) and runs into a Daddy Yankee look-alike. While lamenting the lack of celebs in Minnesota, Renato scores an interview with actress Rosario Dawson.

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• The ATL's Young Jeezy drops his highly-anticipated third album, The Recession. "Previously criticized for strange rhymes and repeating lines, Jeezy delivers some great turns of phrase," commends Billboard.com. "Jeezy’s improvement as a lyricist is obvious. It’s almost hard to believe that there was a time when the highlights of his songs were his adlibs," gushes Vibe magazine, adding, "the Snowman has proven he won’t melt under the pressure of flashing lights."
• Beef-loving L.A. rapper The Game releases LAX, his follow-up to the platinum Doctor's Advocate. The Los Angeles Times thinks it misses the mark: "The Compton-raised rapper's conservative inclination to stick to the gangsta tropes of money, drugs and guns feels limiting at times, as does the album's bloated 1-hour-and-16-minute running time." URB magazine begs to differ: "Sure, it turns into some serious namedropping (almost always), but it’s also the reason why he’s three-for-three in the category of dope, dope records."
• After a five-year hiatus, veteran metalheads Metallica return with Death Magnetic, an album that is "the musical equivalent of Russia's invasion of Georgia — a sudden act of aggression from a sleeping giant," according to Rolling Stone. Music blog The Quietus says Death Magnetic "rinse[s] away the painful memories of watching Some Kind Of Monster, [which shows] Metallica as a bunch of whining, apron tied clowns with no social skills."
• Tween superstars Jonas Brothers release A Little Bit Longer. Entertainment Weekly gives it a "B+" and congratulates: "Assuming each generation gets the teen idols it deserves, then today's kids must have done something good — God knows what — to have merited the Jonas Brothers." Blender gives the trio 4 out of 5 stars for its feel-good pop-rock: "Becoming a teenager is confusing and scary. The Jonases offer a friendly road map."
• Solange Knowles attempts to shake the "Beyoncé's little sister" tag with Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, "a peppy album, rich with thumping horns, crisp percussion and light piano melodies." Despite a whiff of praise, The New York Times concludes "Solange can’t quite keep up." Allmusic disagrees, calling it "one of the year's more entertaining and easily enjoyable R&B releases," because it's "fronted by … someone who is slightly more concerned with raw emotion and clowning around than technical prowess and polished product."

Only two years in the game, Aliados De La Sierra have enjoyed a quick rise to the top of the duranguense scene. But their beef with fellow Chicago natives Alacranes Musical has left many of their fans divided.

In early 2007, ex-Alacranes vocalist Sergio "Hershey" Federico and drummer Adan Cervantes formed Aliados along with keyboardist Eduardo Navar of Brazeros Musical. The band was later rounded out by vocalist Jose Luis Muro, multi-instrumentalist Roberto Tello, saxophonist Pedro Celis and Juan Alfredo Rosas on tambora. The "splinter" group released its debut Con Los Ojos Cerrados and scored instant hits with covers of two love songs, Te Amo and the album's title track, originally made popular by pop-roquera Gloria Trevi.

But the band soon became fodder for gossip TV when Federico and Navar got into a fistfight with four members of Alacranes Musical at a Los Angeles hotel – and in the middle of an industry gathering. Head Alacrán Memo Ibarra credits the scuffle with helping the former bandmates patch up: "We fixed things, we sat down and talked about it... everything turned out OK."

Curiously, only two months after dropping their debut, Aliados released their Greatest Hits – a live album recorded in Chicago. After touring the U.S. and México, the group are currently working on their sophomore studio release.

You may have wondered: are they? A little?
Well, yes. Yes, they are.

Sabrina Bryan

Age: 23

Actress-singer best known for her work with The Cheetah Girls and her appearance on "Dancing With the Stars."

Halfsie or Fullsie?

Halfsie: Mexican father.

Noel Gugliemi

Age: 38

Actor-comedian known for playing a cholo in Training Day, Bruce Almighty, Street Kings, Harsh Times, S.W.A.T., etc, etc.

Halfsie or Fullsie?

Halfsie: Italian father and Puerto Rican-Mexican mother.

Stacey Dash

Age: 42

Actress known for appearances in the movie Clueless and music videos like Kanye West's All Falls Down.

Halfsie or Fullsie?

Halfsie: West Indian father and Mexican mother.

John Melendez

Age: 42

Formerly "Stuttering John" from the Howard Stern Show. Currently the announcer for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

Halfsie or Fullsie?

Fullsie: Puerto Rican.

Carmen Wong Ulrich

Age: 36

Host of CNBC's finance show "On the Money" and author of Generation Debt: Take Control of Your Money.

Halfsie or Fullsie?

Fullsie: Dominican-American.