We love sampling the many variations of Old Fashioned cocktails around town. Here’s where we found some of our favorites.

ROBBINS: (Reading) Weather's hot, but there's a breeze today, and it feels sweet swimming up her bare thighs. There is sage smell and rose waft. There is fly buzz and polka yip. Way off ...

Tom Robbins, the novelist and prankster-philosopher who charmed and addled millions of readers with such screwball adventures as "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues" and "Jitterbug Perfume," has died.

Tom Robbins, a one-time Richmonder who became an acclaimed novelist known for such witty works as “Another Roadside Attraction” and “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,” died Sunday at 92.