DRC/David Minton

Dave Wilson serves up fish and chips from his 1961 double-decker bus, the Angry Friar, on Thursday in Denton.

The blare of a Beatles song pierces the evening sky over Denton, drawing clusters of Fry Street patrons to a green, double-decker British bus. The 1961 London Transport Routemaster bus, named the Angry Friar, has been converted into a mobile British-style fish and chips kitchen. Dave Wilson, the Englishman who owns the four-wheeled fryer, picked Fry Street to park his business near because “it seems to be right.”

For the DRC/Danny Fulgencio

Fred Ferraro of F&D Pro Shop demonstrates how bowling balls are drilled in his workshop at Denton’s Brunswick Zone bowling center.

F&D Pro Shop’s glass door muffles the thunder of pins and bowling balls in a Denton bowling alley, as it has for nearly a decade. Like an attentive Old World craftsman, 63-year-old Fred Ferraro caresses the contours of a bowler’s fingers, fashioning a perfect fit. Ferraro’s own hands are grandfatherly and precise as a whirring drill press sinks three holes into the bowling ball. In a refuge built for recreation, in a sport with its own culture and peculiar personalities, the Ferraros and Brunswick Zone’s close-knit household now face a slippery economic dilemma: Bowling’s skidding popularity is provoking change across the knock-and-crash world of oiled bowling lanes.

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Tony Clark, left — Northstar Bank president and CEO — stands with Stacy Curtis, president of Northstar Bank Mortgage, and Ted Leveridge, bank executive vice president.

Tony Clark, president and CEO of Northstar Bank, recently announced that the bank’s mortgage division has merged with Curtis Mortgage, which has been in Denton since 1999. The new division will be known as Northstar Bank Mortgage, and will be located at 3111 Unicorn Lake Blvd., Suite 120. “We have followed Curtis Mortgage through the years and have been impressed with Stacy [Curtis] and his team,” Clark said in an e-mail. “Like Northstar Bank, they are dedicated to keep customer service a top priority. Curtis Mortgage complements our operations and fits well with our mortgage goals.”