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BOOKS: Come see the magic that happens when books meet film at The Moving Stories Film Festival tonight, presented by Pages Books as part of their This is Not a Reading Series. Featuring shorts based on the stories of recently published books from around the world, the one-night festival aims to enhance the appreciation of both literature and cinema through the combination of the two (as is evident in cinema masterpieces such as Twilight). Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen Street West), 7:30 p.m., $5 (includes a free drink, woohoo!).

MUSIC: David Berman and the rest of his Silver Jews are stopping by Lee's Palace tonight as part of their North American tour. They're joined by Boston rock group Hallelujah The Hills. Lee's Palace (529 Bloor Street West), 9 p.m., $15.

Dan Misener's unstoppably rad reading series, Grownups Read Things They Wrote As Kids, is moving to new digs for its fourth installation next Monday.

Originally published by Viking Press in 1957, Jack Kerouac's On the Road has been wearing holes in the back pockets and floppy canvas knapsacks of gaggles of come-find-yourself road trippers and college-aged who-am-I types ever since. To coincide with the 50th anniversary of its publication, Wednesday night will see the Gladstone play host to something of a symposium on the life and legacy of their main man, Kerouac. Authors Ray Robertson and David Creighton will be in conversation with CBC Radio One’s Jian Ghomeshi to discuss our ceaseless cultural infatuation with the famed Beat writer.

You still have a few hours left, but Torontoist's Poetry Contest closes tonight! At the beginning of the new year, Torontoist launched a poetry contest to encourage the penning of new poems about our fair city. After judges Carly Beath, Stephen Cain, and Jay MillAr deliberate, we'll announce the winner plus five honourable mentions on April 10.

If the weather doesn’t remind you that spring has already started, then maybe the barrage of gardening books lining the walls of Chapters will help. One of those books is written by local Toronto photoblogger and designer Gayla Trail.