This Week in Bans: Belarus Kills Off 'Jesus Christ Superstar'

Welcome back to our weekly look at what's been outlawed in cities across the world:

• Aficionados of poultry-based art in Lawrence, Kansas, will not get to experience Amber Hansen's “The Story of Chickens: A Revolution," because city officials just banned it for being cruel to animals. Hansen had planned to move a few cooped-up fowl around town so that members of the public could "have the opportunity to build a relationship with the birds." Then she'd get a farmer to kill them in front an audience and a local chef to serve them in a potluck dinner. The idea, the artist explains, is that "the project will transform the contemporary view of chickens as merely 'livestock' to the beautiful and unique creatures they are, while promoting alternative and healthy processes of caring for them." But this point was taken the exact opposite way by Lawrence's frowning elders, who noted that she could be fined $1,000 and get six months in jail if convicted of cruelty.