Save Westwood?

Okay, so Los Angeles magazine doesn't update its web site -- or , it seems, even employ a halfway-decent webmaster. But the January issue does a big to-do about the new-and-improved Westwood Village.

The article is at times too complementary, but in the end covers the neighborhood's issues right...focusing on what needs to be done to get the place back to its former glory days. (It even covers with a handy 9-step plan. City planning -- now as easy as alcoholics anonymous!)

The story's premise is built on the fact that Westwood can bounce back because a scary 1988 gang shooting that ended with a dead innocent bystander.

The story, as you should have figured out by now, is a victim of incredibly poor timing.

The glory days of Westwood were ruined when the shooting scared all the skittish westsiders towards the Third Street Promenade and -- ugh -- Universal Studios CityWalk. 36-year-old Fouad Salik was critically injured in a shooting eerie for its similarities for the 1988 incident.

LAPD has arrested a suspect in the case. But the question remains: despite media hype, can Westwood ever come back?