First a disclaimer: We hate West Edge, too. The pseudo-neighborhood moniker, for the zone between Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market, was hatched eight years ago by the Downtown Seattle Association. Banners went up along First Avenue to help us remember the name. (Official slogan: “There is nothing dull about it!”) Seattle Weekly has its offices in said zone, but if anyone were to ask me for directions to my building, saying “West Edge” would leave them scratching their heads. (Rug Row is my preferred appellation, meaning the area amid all the furniture and rug shops along Western Avenue.)But I always did kind of like the West Edge mural at the corner of Seneca and First, which was painted on the side of a building facing a playground used by local daycare facilities. A little patch of green, toddlers running around in circles screaming for no reason at the top of their lungs–West Edge, I don’t get it, but the scene always made me smile. Until this past week, when a Starbucks banner was erected over the old West Edge mural. So now it’s just another commercial advertisement. As West Edge was, of course, from the very beginning.