Category - Insights
Getting Smart in Our Neighborhoods
Insights
Time for another Providencehood. It’s our regular excuse to get together with friends, neighbors and other small businesses from the Creative Capital, or the entire Ocean State for that matter. Rhode Island may be small but we’ve got a…
Join Our Health Club for ALL Your New Year’s Resolutions
Insights, livable cities, Tips
If you’ve resolved to get fitter this New Year, we have the perfect health club to recommend. In fact, if your resolutions include: trimming expenses, helping the environment, happiness or boosting your real-estate values, our fitness facility is…
Happy Hygge to You this Holiday Season!
Insights
“And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’” That’s hygge!
The Amazing Ocean State Gift List
Insights, Tips
We’ve accidentally created the best gift list. Hyperbole may be cheap these days, but this list deserves to be on the top of the Best List list. The beauty of this list is its variety in terms of…
Send us a Shot of Optimism. Win a Cleverhood cape!
Insights, News
We’ve devised a new Cleverhood photo contest. It’s easy to play. Plus, we have scientific evidence that every player will win a nice prize. As if that weren’t enough, we’re also awarding 3 distinct Cleverhood capes for the…
Embodied Cognition: When Your Clothes Make You Smarter
Insights
Do clothes affect the way we think? No doubt there’s an emotional factor in apparel. We’re well aware that clothes affect the way others perceive us. Consider the effects of the tuxedo, string ties, culottes, or the very…
Men Who Wear Capes (updated)
Insights, News
Some men are uncomfortable with the idea of wearing a cape. There could be two reasons for that. First, maybe they don’t understand capes. This garment has the elegantly simple form + function that men typically appreciate. It…
Dreams Come True: 30% off Your Holiday Sweatshirt Cape
Insights, News
You’re missing. I see your lover’s wine glass and the romantic sunset. But where the hell are you? Why don’t I see you there all moon eyed and snugly in your cozy Sweatshirt Cape? You know how lovable you can be.
April Showers Bring May Flowers — A Manifesto
Insights
It’s not that we’re necessarily happier when it rains. It’s just a matter of making the best of things. Like Bob Marley or Bob Dylan once said: “Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” Either way,…
April Showers Deal for the Holidays!
Insights, News
Happy April Fool’s to you and yours. This is a big month for us here at Cleverhood (April Showers and all that). We’ll be kicking it off in true Rhode Island fashion. While this custom of playing harmless pranks on this special day is recognized just about everywhere, we’re the state with its own particularly quirky prank. It’s certainly not without its controversy.
