The Dogtown Reader is Cape Ann’s premier source for mostly accurate, occasionally prophetic, and always satirical local news.

Founded on the bedrock belief that reality isn’t quite weird enough, we set out to make a version of Gloucester and its surroundings that’s just one seagull short of believable. No subject is too strange — or too sacred — for our digital newsroom.

Our reporting style is dry, our jokes are wet, and our commitment to confusing the unaware is ironclad.

All Images Are AI-Generated (Obviously)

Every image you see on The Dogtown Reader is completely AI-generated — because nothing captures the gritty surrealism of Cape Ann like a robot trying to imagine it from scratch. If it looks too realistic to be fake or too fake to be real, then we’ve done our job.

Not Real, Just True

All articles are entirely fictional and written for entertainment purposes. We are not affiliated with any business, nonprofit, political campaign, historical reenactment society, or junior varsity softball league. Though if something we publish accidentally comes true, we reserve the right to say “We told you so.”

Thanks for reading. Stay weird, Cape Ann.