1. Here are the facts about Paint Nite, presented in the order in which you realize them when you come across a photograph taken at Paint Nite: Paint Nite has a hashtag, and that hashtag has 58,286 ...

Dan Hermann’s business started with an unusual birthday party. In early 2012, he was invited to a friend’s house in Boston where the guests drank wine and learned to paint. It was a revelation for ...

“Drink creatively,” reads the motto; and then, just below that: “No experience required.” Paint Nite is just one of the many of the “add-alcohol” activities taking the nation by storm. Movie theaters ...

A half dozen or so years ago, Sean McGrail attended a birthday party with his pal Dan Hermann where a group of adults were enjoying a group painting exercise. At first the two Boston-area friends were ...

Most startup creation myths involve seeing a solution to some horrifying problem no one else noticed. Not so for Dan Hermann and Sean McGrail, who were at a female friend’s birthday party four years ...

In 2012, Sean McGrail co-founded Paint Nite and started an international cultural phenomenon of social wine and painting events. The Paint Nite website is a marketplace that allows entrepreneurial ...

On a recent Wednesday evening, about a dozen women and two men sat in pairs and trios in a musty little room in the basement of a pub, just off the busy retail thoroughfare of Steinway Street in ...