Gale Whiting’s one-woman play, “Love Defined”, celebrates the lives and loves of four jazz greats with poetic storytelling and song, debuting August 8–10 at Cité des Arts in downtown Lafayette.

Love can take countless forms — romantic, platonic, everlasting, fleeting and even heartbreaking. Some believe love is a feeling, others insist it’s a choice and some don’t believe in it at all. I’m ...

For millennia, philosophers, prophets, and poets have debated and theorized about love: what it is, how to describe it, how to cultivate it. Scientists, not so much. Indeed, only in recent decades ...

The Iberia African American Historical Society and Books Along the Teche Literary Festival hosts Love Defined at the Shadows on the Teche on Saturday, Feb. 21, 2026, in New Iberia, La. The performance ...

During those first few weeks of a new romance, we constantly crave the ecstasy we reach when our crush is near, yet we can dive into deep despair if we feel as though our feelings aren’t reciprocated.