This is a special issue of The Eye. Valerie Forgione is not only a local mainstay in the Boston music scene, with years fronting the band Mistle Thrush, working in the best local record chain retailer Newbury Comics, and my on-air cohort on the radio, but she's a fellow Arlington resident. We spent a Sunday afternoon on the back porch talking about the band, Boston, and other stuff. It's lovingly combined with some footage taken around our fair Boston 'burb.