The Five: A board game for 2, an inspiring doc and an end-of-the world love song

1) Patchwork is a competitive board game for two. Each player moves a marker around a board, collecting buttons and quilting squares. A many-layered strategy is involved, yet the game is easy for elementary school kids to grasp. It’s a stellar intergenerational game that takes less than a half hour to play.

2) “Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland” by Patrick Radden Keefe is not true crime. It’s a gripping history of a complicated war fought by young people who were willing to blow up themselves and civilians if it meant their freedom.

3) According to Tracy Edwards, the ocean is always trying to kill you. Yet, as a 20-something without a seafaring background, she decided to pull together an all-female team to race a yacht around world. She is told “no” over and over — and never quits. And you root for her and her crew every nautical mile.

Please go see “Maiden” in the theater so you feel that murderous ocean as it batters the aluminum, secondhand racing yacht in the iceberg-strewn Antarctic waters. Also, those ‘80s hairstyles look best on the big screen.

4) Bundyville is back! The Longreads and OPB series and podcast takes you inside the minds and operations of domestic terrorists, sovereign citizens and the people who benefit from fanning their paranoia.

Here’s the open for the new season:

When the house around the corner exploded, Richard Katschke and his wife, Karen, were reading scripture. The retired pair looked up from the pages and froze. In another room, a plastic light cover clattered to the floor.

It was a warm Wednesday. Mid-July 2016, about 8 p.m. Outside, a boy rode his bike near South Fifth Street. A man started a lawn mower.

5) Hypersonic missiles “threaten to change the nature of warfare.” They’ve also inspired a fantastic power pop love song from the POV of a narrator as nihilistic as the folks in Bundyville.

The BBC named singer-songwriter Sam Fender one of the “Sound of 2018” citing his “lyrics about government surveillance, fake news and sexual harassment.” His new single is “Hypersonic Missiles”

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